Tuesday, June 10, 2008

1st Website

This was quite an experience getting photos on a website, I guess that's why people pay substantial sums of $$$ to have their websites done professionally. As of right now:
1. Most of the Photos taken in the past 5 years are digital.
2. The Black and White scanning is horrible, all were scanned from mounted and matted prints. I'll need to research and correct. Primary issues are file size & dust - scanned at 600DPI and dust everywhere. I guess you have to control that during the scanning. Working then with the scanned images in Lightroom and Photoshop was a chore - guess I don't have enough knowledge yet and maybe file sizes were too big - but a saved file that looked fine turned into a nightmare next time I opened it.
3. The Digital process is fun. Opens the world of color. Amazing what you can do with Lightroom. I'm currently using a Nikon D300 for color and not sure I can produce a sellable image over 11x14 - though probably many can and do. I have seen what the Hasselblads, with the 39megapixel backs can do - and it seems that's the standard of quality measurement.
Anyway, you have to start somewhere...

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