Moose wrote:
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>> All but the most recent images I've posted here were made from costco
>> scans, before I started scanning my own and using imagemagick for
>> initial editing.
> Ah, well that explains a lot. Even the scans I was getting from a real
> photo shop turned out in the end to not be good enough.
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>>
>> Anyway, my current edits are more pleasing to me.
>> Feel free to poke around
>> http://nfs.nfshost.com/pics07/Winter07.html
>> http://nfs.nfshost.com/pics07/Spring07.html
>>
>> (There are a lot of shots there, and too many more from last year. I/we
>> sort of use it as an album and have to start weeding one of these days.
>> Or organizing. Yikes.)
>>
> Aaaaahh, much better! Some real beauties in there. I haven't had time to
> look at them all yet beyond skimming the thumbnails and clicking on a few.
>
> I like 7D21/09 a lot and 7D21/12 even more.
Thanks. That nor'easter was a beaut and I would have loved to walk
outside and take some shots but it was way too windy and wet for both me
and the OM.
7E17/10 is very lovely too.
>
> Like a few others, and assuming they are on neg film, the skies could
> benefit from different scan settings and/or processing to bring cloud
> detail out from the flat, blownish highlights.
They weren't blown 'til I fiddled with them in photofiltre & that one in
particular needs another go. (My batch edit doesn't blow or clip
anything. Just the dummy post processor :-)
>
> Dogwood at Bear Mountain, NY [12] is a great subject and composition of
> elements. 'Twere mine, I'd see how a crop of a bit off the left looked
> and how it looked with the contrail removed.
It looks a helluva lot better.
>
> Just some random observations among lots of stuff to like.
>
>> <snip more good stuff>
>>> Again, I hope you take these comments in the constructive way they are
>>> intended!
>> I do and appreciate your taking the time.
>>
> My pleasure. You do some very nice work and it's starting to show in you
> web versions!
As always, thanks a lot for the kind words and especially the critiques
and suggestions.
This list is an incredible resource for learning. It's a bit like
cheating, but hell, I'm not proud.
--
Russ Butler (NJ USA)
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