Let the Photoshop hell begin...
Jan. 27th, 2003 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tugrikThe downside of shooting all-digital with E-TTL multiflash metering is that my exposure settings are all over the chart. The advantage to this is that I can catch much more detail out of super-dark or super-bright suits at the expense of the backdrop being at different brightness levels. The downside is the immense amount of fiddling-with-levels that's required to yank data out of the dark-black regions of my D30's dynamic range. With nearly 1,000 frames shot during the FC2003 photoshoot, I'm going to be doing after-work photoshop until my eyes fall out of my skull. A few weeks' worth, at least.
The process is rather simple. It's just a quantity issue.
And to think I do this for free... aieeeeee.....
Lindz brought a sample of magnetic core memory to show around. It was about the size of a PCI card and looked like super-tiny macrame threads. He had a telescope eyepiece he was using as a magnifyer to show it around. On a whim I had him bring it over to the desk. Revar threw a dime on the board, and I had Lindz, Kreggan and one other fellow hand-hold three flashes around the board to get Ungodly Amounts of Light so I could crank the aperature down to 1/32 F-stop. This makes the depth-of-field on Reality_fox's lovely 100mm Macro Lens of Doom go from sub-millimeter to about 1.5mm, allowing me to just barely pull off a hand-held shot at 1/45s. Macro shots hand-held are a PAIN. But anyways, here it is. The dime gives a good sense of scale. Click through for the 'full sized' image:
The process is rather simple. It's just a quantity issue.
- Sort images into blocks of each subject and correlate them with the paperwork Revar did
- Mass triage: throw out frames in each block that just aren't salvagable
- Subjective sort: Pick the 'best image' of each block and put it first. Sort the rest in order of decreasing quality
- Crop, Sharpen and Level each 'best image' (herein lies the 2nd worst part, timewise)
- Provide this list of Best Images and Names to the FC2003 website (for those who allowed public posting)
- Crop, Sharpen and Level all the rest of the images (and here's the part that will take forever, aieeee)
- Assemble the 'private web site' for the photo participants and post all the photos, password-protected
- Create 'email packets' of photos for those who wanted their images emailed
- Send out all the emails with site passwords and photo-packets
- Assemble the CD-ROM that gets sent to all the photo participants, and burn 'em (about 45)
- Assemble the CD-ROM that goes to the FC/AAE Staff for their DVD person to use (they'll import the data into the DVD)
- Burn and file a master set of CDs and/or DVD for my own records
- Snail-mail the CD-ROMs
- Bill FC/AAE for the CD-ROM blanks and postage. All done!
And to think I do this for free... aieeeeee.....
Lindz brought a sample of magnetic core memory to show around. It was about the size of a PCI card and looked like super-tiny macrame threads. He had a telescope eyepiece he was using as a magnifyer to show it around. On a whim I had him bring it over to the desk. Revar threw a dime on the board, and I had Lindz, Kreggan and one other fellow hand-hold three flashes around the board to get Ungodly Amounts of Light so I could crank the aperature down to 1/32 F-stop. This makes the depth-of-field on Reality_fox's lovely 100mm Macro Lens of Doom go from sub-millimeter to about 1.5mm, allowing me to just barely pull off a hand-held shot at 1/45s. Macro shots hand-held are a PAIN. But anyways, here it is. The dime gives a good sense of scale. Click through for the 'full sized' image:
