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grevys In reply to DrewHopper [2009-12-02 07:37:39 +0000 UTC]

thanks drew!

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grevys In reply to FlippinPhil [2009-12-01 19:20:11 +0000 UTC]

no worries Phil - a few things in reply - you made me go back to have a look at the original scan: this is not over-sharpened - just sand and a touch of film grain (but heck it's the appearance that counts so it may appear over-sharpened!); on the contrast, this is already nudged - but we're looking at some pretty subtle undulations in sand. the real highlights are sand grain sized and i'm happy with them (and the histogram) in a big version. i also suspect that we get a little addicted to eye-popping contrast in web presentation - which doesn't work so well if printing large (as these medium format film things can go ...). it's nice, though, to have some good feedback though - thanks!

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FlippinPhil In reply to grevys [2009-12-01 19:32:59 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, sorry about that, it's the film grain I'm seeing. Which is kind of throwing me off the real textures of the sand, as it looks oversharpened, as I said before, even though it's not.
Yeah I was looking at the top part of the frame, at the water, and the highlights look gray in colour, it looks like when you heavily recover highlights in a digital raw file. With a kind of gray cast over it to make it not look blown in the highlights, just my view of it though.
No problem at all man.

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