Trivandrum **1 - Richard Jenkinson






Camera:   Contax G2
Lens:   Carl Zeiss Planar 45mm f/2
Film:   Ilford Delta 400
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Adjustment:   Photoshop CS Contrast/Brightness and cropped
Posted:   02-Oct-2005

Rating: 8.56 (16 ratings)

Comments

Richard!

This is a very nice Shot!

John Del Gatto     02-Oct-2005 at 21:20

Impressive

but the face on the right keeps bothering me - the way it's been cropped and the posterized black spots on the shoulder and the upper lip make it somewhat distracting.

Wilfred van der Vegte     03-Oct-2005 at 00:29

Hi Richard, Very good composition and strong image.

Mark     03-Oct-2005 at 01:43

Great

image.

[Unknown]     03-Oct-2005 at 07:29

Impressive

I am really impressed by this photo ! A really nice shot for me too ! Thanks for sharing all your beautiful Photos. vadc When I see this photo I feel that I took the right choice few weekd ago to invest in a G2...

vadc     03-Oct-2005 at 12:01

Thanks

for all the kind remarks and generous ratings. Wilfred, I entirely agree regarding the face on the right. The cropping I can do nothing about as the photo's full frame on this corner- the moment's gone. The "posterising" presumably I can. I am not a technophile; I fumble my way through Photoshop until I happen upon the image result I imagined I would have achieved in a darkroom. I read (with equal measures of awe and bewilderment) comments left on this site regarding digital evolution/editing. (Read, for example, Leslie Hancock's dazzling and eloquent insights into digi v anaolg on ID 14813). The result of this ignorance is to post images with imperfections that didn't exist as a scanned TIFF image or whilst editing in PSD format or, indeed, when I uploaded the final JPEG image. Any ideas as to why this digital phenomenon has occurred and how I can prevent it happening again? Thanks again. Richard

Richard Jenkinson     03-Oct-2005 at 14:43

nice

Very dramatic....I wish I would've been there

Steve Garza     03-Oct-2005 at 19:14

Posterized spots

Richard, the spots may have to do with your scanner and/or the way you processed the scan (especially increasing detail in the shadows using curves). What type of scanner did you use? Did you scan in 8-bits mode or 16-bits mode?

Wilfred van der Vegte     04-Oct-2005 at 01:53

Oops

sorry, I hadn't noticed that you included the type of scanner. Still the question seems relevant whether you scanned and edited in 16 bits or 8 bits.

Wilfred van der Vegte     04-Oct-2005 at 02:01

Bit depth

Wilfred. I've just checked, the negative was scanned in greyscale at 8 bits. Would 16 bits improve the quality?

Richard Jenkinson     04-Oct-2005 at 04:08

Yes

16 bits might help to overcome posterization, i.e. gradual transitions in greytones becoming sudden transitions. It looks like that's what happened with the spots.

Wilfred van der Vegte     04-Oct-2005 at 05:12

Okay

Thanks for that Wilfred

Richard Jenkinson     04-Oct-2005 at 12:59