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A book report: LensWork publishing services

May 14, 2015 JimK Leave a Comment

This is post eleven in a series about my experiences in publishing a book. The series starts here. I got an interesting email yesterday from LensWork, pointing me at this website: Here are the details. Isn’t that a coincidence! Just at the time when I start working on publishing a book, LensWork gets into that… [Read More]

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Flash photography’s pariah status

May 13, 2015 JimK 6 Comments

You talk to many who consider themselves serious photographers – not the commercial ones – and bring up flash photography. The noses turn up. Distain drips from their responses. Using flash is something one might do in private for utilitarian purposes, but it’s not a way to make important photographs. This attitude has percolated from… [Read More]

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Synching up

May 12, 2015 JimK 2 Comments

Back in the late 1980s my wife asked me what all those noises that came from a modem at the beginning of an on-line session were. I told her that the modem on her desk was negotiating with the modem at the other end to find out what each was capable of, so that they… [Read More]

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Modeling camera motion

May 11, 2015 JimK 4 Comments

I’m going to take a little break from the ongoing monolog about book publishing. I’ve got a lot of work to do deciding which images need intervention in remapping to the GRACoL gamut, and performing that remapping, and describing what I’m doing would not generalize to other people’s book projects, so I won’t be posting… [Read More]

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A book report: proof sheets

May 10, 2015 JimK 1 Comment

This is post ten in a series about my experiences in publishing a book. The series starts here. Before I obsess too much over mapping the gamut of the Staccato images to Coated GRACoL 2006, I needed to get an idea of how much trouble I was in. It’s one thing to look at the… [Read More]

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    • Backing up photographic images
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  • Lens screening testing
    • Equipment and Software
    • Examples
      • Bad and OK 200-600 at 600
      • Excellent 180-400 zoom
      • Fair 14-30mm zoom
      • Good 100-200 mm MF zoom
      • Good 100-400 zoom
      • Good 100mm lens on P1 P45+
      • Good 120mm MF lens
      • Good 18mm FF lens
      • Good 24-105 mm FF lens
      • Good 24-70 FF zoom
      • Good 35 mm FF lens
      • Good 35-70 MF lens
      • Good 60 mm lens on IQ3-100
      • Good 63 mm MF lens
      • Good 65 mm FF lens
      • Good 85 mm FF lens
      • Good and bad 25mm FF lenses
      • Good zoom at 24 mm
      • Marginal 18mm lens
      • Marginal 35mm FF lens
      • Mildly problematic 55 mm FF lens
      • OK 16-35mm zoom
      • OK 60mm lens on P1 P45+
      • OK Sony 600mm f/4
      • Pretty good 16-35 FF zoom
      • Pretty good 90mm FF lens
      • Problematic 400 mm FF lens
      • Tilted 20 mm f/1.8 FF lens
      • Tilted 30 mm MF lens
      • Tilted 50 mm FF lens
      • Two 15mm FF lenses
    • Found a problem – now what?
    • Goals for this test
    • Minimum target distances
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Printable Siemens Star targets
    • Target size on sensor
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Test instructions — postproduction
    • Test instructions — reading the images
    • Test instructions – capture
    • Theory of the test
    • What’s wrong with conventional lens screening?
  • Previsualization heresy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Recommended photographic web sites
  • Using in-camera histograms for ETTR
    • Acknowledgments
    • Why ETTR?
    • Normal in-camera histograms
    • Image processing for in-camera histograms
    • Making the in-camera histogram closely represent the raw histogram
    • Shortcuts to UniWB
    • Preparing for monitor-based UniWB
    • A one-step UniWB procedure
    • The math behind the one-step method
    • Iteration using Newton’s Method

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