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damonff
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D.C. Metro, 12/14/04
Newspaper Frenzy
Feet
Red Hat
Newspaper Frenzy
Feet
Red Hat
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damonff
Registered Users Posts: 1,894 Major grins
damonff
Registered Users Posts: 1,894 Major grins
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How ya doin' Damon? Youre in D.C. now? Get that G5 yet?
gubbs.smugmug.com
Nice images...now we just need Vincent Schiaverelli to show up and scream, "Get off my Traaaaaiiiiin!"
MainFragger
who's Vincent Schiaverelli??
Here is a technical issue. All three have a lot of out-of-gamut areas. (Use view->gamut warnings in PS.) It's taken me longer than it should have, but I've discovered that when these exist your images often will look different and wrong in various browsers, os's, and monitors. And they will never print the way you think they should. It is very easy to correct this: move the image in and out of the CMYK colorspace. PS will do the best it can to preserve the look of the image while bringing it into gamut for printing. You might prefer the look of the out-of-gamut version on your monitor in your program and os, but sadly, that just isn't what other people are likely to see.
Besides being way out of gamut, the first image is very yellow. Look at the image in LAB, bring up the curves box, switch to the B curve and click on various places. It's almost into imaginary color territory. I tried backing off the yellow side of the B curve a little and flattening the A curve a little and got this:
It's a lot more understated than you image and maybe you really want that high saturation. For me, I think the composition and subject matter is interesting enough to work without the very bright yellow. I think this version will print much better. You could try for someting in between if you want the saturation but also want something that will print without making a mess.
gubbs.smugmug.com
I like the red hat one too. I printed that one as well and it looks pretty good. I noticed that all of my stuff looks different at school on their pc monitors. What I see on my Powerbook is almost exactly what prints at Ritz. For some reason, their quality has been right on with me...no colour issues at all. Maybe when I finally get a decent printer at home and I have to print myself this will all come into play. Gamut...to tell you the truth, I do almost everything by feel - I rarely check anything for proper colour or anything like that. I shoot what I see that I think will translate in an interesting way on a frame, and when I post-process, I add a little feeling to it whether it be the contrasty b/ws, extreme colourings, or whatever...I'm a feel guy. Maybe my stuff can be kicked up a notch by being more technical, I don't know. I'll try...
Thanks for the insight Rutt. I can always count on you for exceptional, useful criticism.
In later years, he started to get some better parts, including Ghost, A bond film, A spot on X-Files, Death to Smoochy, and even having his own cooking show on PBS (briefly).
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