2009.07.23 "Paper" discussion

[Buddy J]

Nice photo Snark. Love the composition and you nailed the lighting.

[LIN]

Like the Paper Man, $nark ;). Nice composition.

[GHoosdum]

On my monitor, mine looks incredibly washed out in color. I hacked my camera to shoot RAW, and this is as much color as I could get into the photo that resulted. The JPG version looked even worse, but the card itself is actually yellower than the resulting image. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

[shwaip]

Could you maybe post the raw file? It might be interesting to look at in lightroom.

[GHoosdum]

Could you maybe post the raw file? It might be interesting to look at in lightroom.

I have nowhere to upload it to, otherwise I would do that.

[RyderOCZ]

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[primesuspect]

Snark: AWESOME photo. Super creative, well executed. Perfect!

Pete: I love it because it completely brings back working at a newspaper. It has personal meaning to me, and I guess that's what art is for. Great photo!

Lynx: Cool shot. It's not "wowee!" cool, but it's a good photo.

LIN: Welcome to the project! That's an awesome first entry. Clever, and cute!

Rob: Things are getting way better, man. I don't know what kind of technical problems you're having with color, but you're obviously learning to compensate, cause this photo is looking really good.

[GHoosdum]

Thanks for the referral, Brian.

shwaip, here's the RAW:
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1604809/CRW_2093.CRW

[shwaip]

huh. I can't open it in lightroom or CS3, but it opens fine in picasa.

[GHoosdum]

It's from my Canon A630, so I'm betting it's not a supported camera in Lightroom and CS3. I opened it in Picasa to get the washed out view, and I got a plugin for Paint.NET that allows me to open it there but the entire thing is chroma shifted to yellow when I do that. The JPG colors were worse off than the RAW, so I just used Picasa to do what I did.

[Snarkasm]

BuddyPete - Nice shot, good angle. I think I (personally) would like to have seen more type on them, but that's mostly because I love old newspapers. Good shot.

Lynx - Very neat subject. I like the colors, and your DOF is good.

Lin - Very cute, and a nice aged feel to it. Cute kitty. :)

GH - Much better on the color correction. Composition is good as well.

I know this may not be worth it for you, but I color correct my monitors with a Huey (http://www.pantone.com/pages/products/product.aspx?pid=79) hardware color correction tool. It's $90 via their site, but I got mine for $40 elsewhere once upon a time. If you can get in on that, it should really help out your overall computing experience, since color can affect so much besides just pictures.

[LIN]

Thanks, guys.. I didn't have much time & not anything great with which to work, but wanted to join in. I hope to do better. There are some really great shots in the Results thread for all the subjects.