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October 28, 2005 Britt F

Wishing For Company

Nebraska

Shot for my photography class last week. Worked out well for this challenge. :)
Note: The brown and black spots are not noise. It's the house. It's a bit dirty and dingy.

-1/4 exp, 100 ISO, 1/15s, f/8, @210mm

Canon A-1 ,Canon 70-210mm f/4 m/1.2,Fuji Sensia E-6 Slide
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Guest 05-Nov-2005 18:40
Thanks Alexeig. I actually love this image because of the reflection in eyeglasses. It looks as if he is longing for someone to come along down the street to see him and ring his doorbell. And I love it because it's my daddy and I love him dearly.
alexeig04-Nov-2005 19:00
Clever treatment of the topic
Rod 04-Nov-2005 11:00
I really don't have any tips Jano, I just get the shots how I like them in Photoshop & then just press print. The shots print very similar to what I see on screen except darker so I just make the picy lighter than I like for printing & it comes out pretty good. I had the HP 930c before & had similar results printing from PS. ME monitor isn't calibrated except for the Adobe gamma thing you get with PS.
janewigginsphotography03-Nov-2005 20:56
Thanks Rod - Actually, i have a canon CP220 printer, an Epson Stylus 820 photo printer, and HP Deskjet 932 color printer. The problem is that I seem to not be able to get on print what I see on my monitor. I see all the shades of gray here in the forums so I believe my monitor is calibrated (Dell Flat Ultra Sharp). I've tried to figure out exactly how to print with satisfactory results, but with the cost of ink it seems a waste while experimenting, and seems cheaper just to go to the lab. Any tips on how to print correctly are appreciated. jano
Rod 03-Nov-2005 09:26
I don't know how your finances are Jano but a decent printer would cost about $150 in the States. I have the Canon Pixma 5000 which cost me $300 down here so I imagine it would be less than $150 over there. The A4 prints look terrific & you can get them just how you like them to look. I've had a lot of bad luck having prints made from slides so I bought a flatbed scanner that I can put 4 slides in & scan one at a time. It's not the greatest but I've got some nice A4 prints out of it. It's getting old now & the quality on to-days flatbeds are getting pretty good. A flatbed scanner that would do a decent job on slides would cost about $250 in the states I would think...........................................Oh & the other thing is.................Nice shot Britt:-) Cept for the white bit & the thumnail does look good.
janewigginsphotography03-Nov-2005 04:42
You have to wonder how they process stuff! I know with my digital prints, I'm pretty fussy. I wish I could just go to the back room myself, get on their puter (lab) with PS and make it the way I want it to print out. I plan on taking a few images in later this week and I'm going to ask if I can sit down with them :) hehe jano
Britt F 03-Nov-2005 04:10
If you look at the "small" size, you can get a more accurate view of what it looks like. For some reason, when it's this big, it looks out of whack.
Britt F 03-Nov-2005 03:54
Yeah those are the joys of using slide film and hoping the guys at the lab don't botch it when they transfer it to prints. It looked really good on the slide, but it lightened a lot when the print came. I was a bit disappointed when I got the print to see how washed out the tree reflection was. I looked at the slide again and it isn't thin at all in that area. Maybe I should put the slide in the projector and take a picture of it with my digital? :0 Seeing it on here DOES make it look weird compared to the print. I think you are right - the compression makes it stand out a lot more, but the lab DID overexpose it. ::sigh::
janewigginsphotography03-Nov-2005 01:20
Good shot Britt - what kind of photography classes are you taking? This really works well but I really don't like the glare in the window but I'm thinking it stands out more because of the compression. The doorbell accentuates the waiting part as well. Hope you get an "A"... :) jano