-- Carlos Co (co@che.udel.edu), November 11, 1998

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Wow. Technical details please (esp. film, exposure, and how you decided to meter).

-- Daryl Hiebert (dhiebe@po-box.mcgill.ca), November 11, 1998.

Not bad if I don't say so myself, only room for improvment would be a lower perspective (possibly), to show the shape of the lower trunk.

-- Tait Stangl (taits@usa.net), November 11, 1998.

The slide has more "outline" details in the dark regions than the Photo-CD scan. Since I couldn't get any detail out without radically adjusting the "curve" in Photoshop, I just decided to crop it off.

-- Carlos Co (co@che.udel.edu), November 12, 1998.

Very nice work. I like the asymetrical composition.

By the way, are you aquiring your PhotoCD images into Photoshop's LAB color space? It has approximately the same gamut as the PhotoCD YCC color space. Seriously, aquire in LAB and convert to RGB. You won't end up clipping as much data that way. It helps if you have the special PhotoCD aquire module from Kodak (as opposed to the default Photoshop one) because it lets you specify a targed gamma.

Best regards, Keith

-- Keith Clark (ClarkPhotography@spiritone.com), November 12, 1998.

The Kodak module is free. Sorry I didn't have the URL handy when I posted.

It's available for Mac and PC and the latest version is 3.0 I see they've removed the target gamma, but they added some ICC profiles, as well as auto black and white point correction (I prefer to do my own), as well as an unsharp-mask option. It's very good, especially for a free 5 MB download.

The main problem with PhotoCD is finding someone who is actually competent with a scanner. In your case, I think you found a good one. :>

Hope it helps!

Best regards, Keith

PS: We're all waiting with "baited breath" to hear how you metered, and the film you used. Personally I think it looks like Velvia and that you spot metered off the orange part of the sky. Am I close? (laughing ;>)

-- Keith Clark (ClarkPhotography@spiritone.com), November 15, 1998.

DOH!!

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/software/pcdAcquireModule.shtml

-- Keith Clark (ClarkPhotography@spiritone.com), November 15, 1998.

Oh, metering. I can't remember exactly. In these kind of situations I'd rather have lots and lotsa film rather than a light meter. I have six shots of this picture and I THINK I started from 4 seconds and went up in 1 stop increments. The film was Kodak Elite II (ISO 100).

-- Carlos Co (co@che.udel.edu), November 16, 1998.