Hmmm. I thought you were going to show us some of the detail.
Chuck Norcutt
Ken Norton wrote:
> Moose's recent experiment on tree downsizing (not lumbering) and sharpening
> (not saws) had me thinking out loud. The problem was, I was carrying on
> quite a dialog with myself. The wife and kids quickly escaped the house...
> On the www.zone-10.com website, under this week's Featured Picture of the
> Week is a picture taken about 13 years ago in Montana of the forests and the
> Hungry Horse Reservoir. Granted, the trees are all green, but you can get an
> idea of what is possible when you combine multi-step scaling and sharpening.
> The grain in the picture is from the Provia film, and in some versions I
> had whacked all the grain out, but I kept it in there this time for artistic
> intent. I felt that the cleaned versions had too much of a texture
> difference between the sky and the trees and actually looked disturbing.
> Again, artistic intent, but could have been easily cleaned had I wanted to.
>
> There was a part of me that wanted to neutralize the blue-cast to the clouds
> and I did experiment with that, but the results looked like so much digital
> schlock today where everybody white-balances things into post-nuclear
> holocaust colors. This digital scan is extremely faithful to the Provia
> slide itself.
>
> In the full-size scan, you can make out the tree branches across the lake
>
> In terms of Chuck's "true resolution" standards, a downsize to about 8
> megapixel equivalent is pixel-sharp. (ie, a detail edge has no blur or
> anti-aliasing, but is razer edged at the pixel level. Not too shabby.
>
> AG
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