Scoobie Seller

Ted Szukalski

I have seen this scoobie seller in few places around Sydney. He is trying to sell scoobies but I have to say I have never seen any one buying them yet.
Frankly he looks a bit scary to me.


What is a scoobie I hear you ask? Wikipedia defines it as: “Scoubidou (Scoubi, Scoobie, or Boondoggle in the USA Or as “gimp” in Canada.) is a plaiting and knotting craft, originally aimed at children, which originated in France, where it became a fad in the 1960s. It came back into fashion in various countries, including the United Kingdom, in 2004 and 2005. It uses commercially supplied plastic strips or tubes.”

System

I love the color but I don't think the capture itself is one of your better ones. The look on his face does not speak to me.

Ted Szukalski

Aha, you have picked up on probably why he doesn't sell anything. He looks like that - a bit intimidating all the time or uncomfortable at the best.

truth wrote:

I love the color but I don't think the capture itself is one of your better ones. The look on his face does not speak to me.

System

Ted Szukalski wrote:

Aha, you have picked up on probably why he doesn't sell anything. He looks like that - a bit intimidating all the time or uncomfortable at the best.

Maybe, but I thin it's the angle of his face. I just don't get to really see and feel his emotion.

Owen

Hi Ted.

What sharpening/post processing techniques do you use? Often I find your images to be rigid, hard, blocky.. this is a good example. I see you were shooting at 1/80 - was it OOF and you tried to bring it back?

Owen

Ted Szukalski

Owen,

In general I use Power Retouche set of plugins by Jan Esmann and nik color fx as well as noise ninja. Those are Pro quality commercial addons.

I think the equivalent values in USM used on this photo were 100% 0.5 8, which as you know is quite conservative sharpening. There was no real other PP done. I do not see pixelation and halos that normally occur if you over sharpen an image. Was it out of OOF? Perhaps just a bit.

Overall, I probably have a mannerism in postprocessing that I like. I've never considered it too aggressive but I do like certain results. I must add I do wear glassess and run my screen at 1600x1200 so perhaps what I see is quite different than what you would see. I'm open for suggestions or hints - it's always good to learn something new or better.

Owen wrote:

Hi Ted.

What sharpening/post processing techniques do you use? Often I find your images to be rigid, hard, blocky.. this is a good example. I see you were shooting at 1/80 - was it OOF and you tried to bring it back?

Owen