"Camera" plus "Andare" - walking around with a camera.
Photographs, San Francisco to Santa Cruz, captured on Kodak Ektar 100 film,
camera with only manual mode of operation, normal lens, UV filter only,
no lens hood, no flash. Ektar was recommended to me eleven years ago by the
proprietor of Foto Express in San José, where my films are developed,
and I have used no other film since. I thank him for his recommendation.
The Ektar shows the colors I want to see.
I scan negatives with the Epson V600, then use Gnu Image Processing to correct
perspective and to scale the images for the website, but not to adjust color
or exposure. No adjustments to color or exposure after the scan.
If the color or exposure in the scan are not what I was looking for, I scan
the negative again. And again; I have scanned some negatives more times than you
want to know. It is a good idea to look at the results of my scan the next day,
or even a week later, before deciding if it is a keeper. Looking at the scan a day
or more later is looking at it as if for the first time.
I frequently display, next to the scan preview, an image from the same part
of the website where the new image will go, to see if the new image will be
a good match.
Occasionally, the scanner preview needs no adjustments. This is more likely for
photographs captured toward evening. But I like to see bright blue sky in
my photographs, so many are captured in the light time of day. These
often require more adjustments in the scan. I most often use the histogram
mode.
Knew I more about the various filters, it might make it easier to make the
adjustements in the scan.
Just two photographs have been cropped: Jasmine Kocha and Tutti Frutti in the
Meridian Avenue section - car traffic did not allow me to get closer.
Some of the original image has been lost in some photographs as a result of correcting
perspective.
I code the website to comply with the specifications of w3.org.
I have only praise for people with the knowledge, skill, and courage
to be professional photographers.
The website is hosted at Webhosting Logic.
Jon Aymon
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