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I hate to think how much I spent on paper (and a RIP) when I got started doing digital printing. The printers were not quite ready for prime time, so you had to both learn and work on tuning the print. I think this is a great idea, and tracks what you had to do to be a good darkroom printer - make a lot of prints, and study each one to figure out what you could do better.
A Specific, Detailed Program for Absolutely, Positively Getting Better as a Digital Printmaker
Who this is for: Novice or occasional printmakers (of any skill level as photographers) who currently don't print a lot and feel insecure about their abilities or dissatisfied with their results—and who have the luxury of making a considerable commitment to getting better. Objectives: Improving...
I use the other techniques, but deconvolution sharpening is new to me. (But I mostly work from LF negative scans, and I usually have plenty of detail.) Would you do deconvolution sharpening after local contrast enhancement, then final print sharpening last? Would you still do the initial capture sharpening, or do these on the unsharpened raw files?
What Does It Take to Be a Good Printer?
By Ctein One of the interesting (because it was unexpected) results of the educational print offer of a few weeks back was that people thought I invoked extraordinary measures to come up with a good print of that photograph. Not even close. I worked with a level of care and attention to detail a...
If you have thousands of negatives, and they are 120 or smaller, go to BH and buy a film scanner. It will do a better job, you will help keep the manufacturers making them, and you will not go crazy. Mike can put up some links.
How to 'Scan' Film with a Camera—Well (Part 1)
By Ctein Two weeks back I wrote about the gradual demise of dedicated film scanners and how, in the future, that is going to make it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to conveniently scan film positives and negatives for digital printing. Many readers expressed interest in the idea of u...
The best cover of Who Do You Love is Ronnie Hawkins, backed up by the Band, in the Last Waltz concert.:-)
As a LF shooter, my favorite small camera is a Technika IV. An M9 would probably be my favorite if I had one, but for real small right now, the Canon S90.
Who Do You Love?*
Sorry, I've got song titles on the brain today. What, not who. But a serious question to throw out to the brain trust**: I'm writing an article called "Small Cameras We Love." I've got a number of the slots nailed down, but the list is looking suspiciously Mike-ish, or maybe I should say Mike-ce...
If you go to Lightroom, you can use it on either platform.
More importantly - Get a Mozy or Carbonite account if you do not have one. A second harddrive for backup is better than nothing, but it does not deal with the need to have an up to date offsite back up so a fire or flood does not wipe everything out. (A lesson from Katrina what way too many photographers down here learned the hard way.)
Shopping Paralysis
I need to keep abreast of products and issues in the computer field more consistently, to keep it from being such a crash course when it does come up. After an intense day of shopping research yesterday (including poring over the 150-some comments to yesterday's post), I came to the decision (re...
You have encapsulated the problem of a fan, who is not a True Fan. I love your work, and I have one. The world is full of good work and my wall space is limited, so I buy very little, and never more than one piece from anyone. I got my print from Mike's print sale of your work, it might have been the first print sale he did.
So, perhaps you and Mike should also hold a print sale every few years for new not exactly true fans.
Keeping 1000 True Fans
By Ctein This is the latest installment in my series on running a "1000 True Fans" business experiment. The previous four articles about this were: 1000 Photographic Fans...Maybe? Does Ctein Have 100 'True Fans'? Finding 1000 True Fans Supporting 1000 True Fans It's Year Two, and now is when pus...
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