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RE: the print

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In Reply to: RE: a bear to adjust. posted by Doc B. on April 21, 2008 at 19:42:22

The day after I took the shot, I made an 8.5x11" print using my Epson R1800 on Kodak glossy paper. I had used PS to reduce noise in the cloudy sky and I adjusted size to fit the paper, but otherwise did not mess with the photo.

The blue tones of water are similar in the print to what you have rendered with my photo. But the mostly cloudy sky in my print is somewhat lighter with a blue-gray tone. The buildings of the city are front lit with the warm tones of the setting sun and similar to your 'compromise' render.

Now that I've had a chance to get used to different color tones from two other pairs of eyes I think I will go with the original and just accept the photo, blue cast and all.

Thanks again for helping me adjust my eyes as well as the photo!!

-Steve

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RE: the print - Doc B. 07:51:17 04/22/08 (0)
I think the original is just great, and there is a lot to be said for the importance of the intent of the original artist over those of us who want to "fix" his work! Fooling with the PS stuff is quite secondary to having the sense to capture that beautiful scene in the first place.

Color management is really a task. I didn't spend too much time on it until we started reprinting the original artwork from several of the albums we're doing for the Tape Project. Getting from the album cover to the scanner to the monitor and to the printer and getting it to look the same at both ends can take hours and hours. I ended up with two of the venerable old Sony GDM-20E20 CRT monitors on my graphics workstation, one of which I had to overhaul. Getting them up and calibrated made me realize just how much of a yellow cast my Toshiba laptop's LCD monitor has. And of course if you change paper you generally have to tweak whatever color settings you have made for the original paper. It's a lot of work to get right (I should probably say close rather than right), and I can't really say that I find it the most pleasant part of photography.

I agree that there is a lot of potential for nice shots in Seattle. Once you adjust your frame of mind you can find interesting shots just about anywhere.

Oh, one final tip - IME I would take the Kodak paper and start a nice fire with it, then order some Epson paper. I think you would like the improvement in color matching with your monitor and the overall improvement in the look of the print.

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