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    Epson 3880 printing photos poorly

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

    Posted

    <p>Hi The color profile that the printer is using is incorrect, the only way to get great prints is to make sure the paper color profile is correct for the the printer.<br>

    You have to turn off the printer color management and use the software management and match the manufacturers profile for the paper to print, through your printer dialogue box.</p>

    <p>Photoshop and light-room have good systems for this, don't forget to calibrate your screen as well.<br>

    There are video tutorials for this at luminous landscape, called from capture to printer or similar.</p>

    Why oh Why Landscape ?

    in Casual Photo Conversations

    Posted

    <p ><a href="../photodb/user?user_id=17200">David</a></p>

     

    <p>I'm afraid you completely lost me at that point. As far as I'm concerned that is completely wrong and I don't imagine I'm alone.</p>

    <p>What I mean with my poor English skills is this:-<br>

    Simply the most popular, and perhaps the most significant form of photography is the family snap.<br>

    A greatly undertated and overlooked form of photography. It records our lives in the most honest way.<br>

    Landscape(not for me thought), comes behind the family snap.</p>

    <p>Cheers John</p>

     

    Why oh Why Landscape ?

    in Casual Photo Conversations

    Posted

    <p>Yes, it is about home, place, I walk the hills when I can get out with the dog and the camera.<br>

    I don't think the images have worked when I went to other countries away from home.<br>

    The rub is my home moved when I emigrated from England to New Zealand, but it took 8 years to think of it as home.</p>

    Why oh Why Landscape ?

    in Casual Photo Conversations

    Posted

    <p>The problem with landscape photography, in my case anyway, is the notion, that pretty much anybody who buys a camera and is a bit tired of photographing their relatives, their friends, Glamor?? or any other subjects, which when we face up to it are the real reasons why we have cameras. Down the list comes landscape, Sontag said it was a way of proving you were there.<br /> I'm quite insecure about the process of making a landscape. You would have thought, that with the number of people who make landscapes, for example at www.photo.net that somehow there is a living to be made from these beautiful interpretations of the landscape from around the world.<br /> <br /> What is it that makes us want to climb hills and photograph the sunset.<br /> I have my personal answer to that, I'm not sure if it's about photography. It's about my freedom, in a world where even though we live in a democratic country, freedom is a myth. So I try to find my freedoms within my photography. Other people find their freedoms in their cars, in their painting, in their family lives and in their work. I have an emotional release when I walk in the hills. My imagination flies wildly around my head. My eyes are looking for a form and a shape within the landscape. In my hand my camera is ready, I try to visualise how the camera is going to interpret the scene that I am looking at, and simultaneously try to include the thoughts that are moving around my head. This fusion of experiences and thoughts, go together to make an image, that later will be processed in my digital darkroom. If I get a surprise when I look at the photographs on the computer, I am not sure if that is a good thing any more because I may not be interpreting the visual and emotional reasons why I've been taking the photograph or capturing the image.<br /> <br /> Of course, sometimes when you look at the picture after it's been in the camera. You will get a surprise, something unexpected, a colour, a shape, a form. I hope that the surprise will enhance the original intention of the photograph. When I walked the hills, and in my case these of the Port Hills, and the crater rim track, I try to go out with a theme. The theme is the single most important thing that I have, that justifies my landscapes.<br /> <br /> My life, whether I like it or not, is immersed in this thing, photography. It is an obsession, it's like a hunger, being creative with this mechanical lump, and it is nothing more than an expensive lump. Even when I look at my work I find it hard to understand why I do this thing. I believe it is the doing rather than the showing that is important to me. However I must have an outlet, it least so I can cover the cost of making my images.<br /> Perhaps it's the mental health thing, this striving to make a picture, yes I do enjoy my family saying, "that's a great picture".<br /> I was thinking the other day, when does this stop, when do I give this up?<br /> Because I could put my skills to other things and actually give up my day job rather than continually strive to make landscape pictures, which, I really sometimes feel are pretty, but lack a certain conceptual strength. Perhaps I would have been better served as a photographer with a glass plate camera, a processing tent and an empty landscape to photograph and document. Though I do believe Ansel Adams would have embraced digital technology wholeheartedly. Adams a man who was obsessed with documenting the landscape, but was quite happy and willing to strongly change his images to suit the creative norms of his day, in the darkroom. Photoshop of course gives that power and ability to anyone who cares to learn the software.<br /> <br /> What a strange world this photographic world is, I guess, I won't get poisoned by the chemicals any more, just blinded by the light of the screen.<br>

    slow loading

    in PhotoNet Site Help

    Posted

    Now I am happy for anyone to make a bit of money from hard work designing sites and giving photographers like me

    an airing.

    I have the highest internet speed available in New Zealand which is cable, (slower then my first world cousins).

     

    I do get upset when I have to wait for all those checkers and adds to load, and sometimes they dont. is there a

    way of speeding things up a bit?

     

    As always a big fan of the site.

     

    John Maillard

    What are the prospects of studying photography in New Zealand?

    in Education & Resource

    Posted

    Hi Hervez

     

    I run what we consider the only pure pro course in New Zealand, its purely digital and covers the classic parts of Pro photo including business.

    Fees are about 16,000 nz dollars per year for two years.

    each course is one year and can be taken independently.

     

    I can send you more details if you want, there is slightly out of date info at http://www.cpit.ac.nz/subjects/photography

     

    Cheers John Maillard

    Phase One PhotoPhase software (capture)

    in The Digital Darkroom: Process, Technique & Printing

    Posted

    Thanks Kelly, this is the reason why I think they are so interesting, they have history. I also have no way of getting anything of the same quality on the teaching pay I get, so its a fun challenge.

    I even think we should have a scanning back, large format forum, because the visual language of these things and the way they see, compared to other cature devices is so different.

    I don't know if any one has seen Steve Johnson's images with a scanning

    back, I thought his ideas were great, thougha bit on the conservative side.<div>00JIbh-34156084.jpg.ab24d5c5d6b3675beead780d9a35befb.jpg</div>

    Phase one battery pack

    in Mirrorless Digital Cameras

    Posted

    I am trying to make up a battery pack for my phase one scanning back.

     

    I have the following information for the power connection.

     

    What I dont understand is what the meaning of DC Com on Pins 1 and 2.

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    Pins 1 & 2 DC COM

     

     

    Pin 3 +5Vdc 2.0 amps

     

     

    Pin 4 -15Vdc 0.3 amps

     

     

    Pin 5 +15Vdc 1.5 amps

     

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    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Phase One PhotoPhase software

    in Mirrorless Digital Cameras

    Posted

    Can any one tell me if I can get the 16 bit plugin for windows.

     

    I have tried the Phase one site but the current soft ware is 3.03 and does not

    include the plugin.

     

    I have a feeling it was only on the Mac software.

     

    I did notice a thread on their site that indicated it was in version 3 of the

    Sucsi software.

     

    Does any one have that for PC?

     

    Thanks in advance.

    polarizing filters

    in Mirrorless Digital Cameras

    Posted

    Best to use a neutral density filter Ryan, these come in a variety of stops, I have 2 4 and 8. Also graduated ND filters are good to try to

    Narrow the dynamic range of the CCD, so for example you don't get burnt out clouds.

    Neutral Density filters reduce the light but don't change the colours.

    Phase one photophase help

    in Large Format

    Posted

    Please help with this.

    I have just bought a phase one photo phase scanning back.

     

    It is connected to a pc with xp through scusi pcmia card, the card works and

    the capture software is loaded.

     

    Xp finds the hardware and is requesting a driver for scan back, but I cant

    find this one anyware on the web or phase one web site.

     

    Thanks in advance. John

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