Thanks, Hannibal.
Just like the A-Team, I do love it when a plan comes together. The proofs for the Keepsake Folio were delivered on Thursday. I was able to take a look at them on Friday afternoon on the way home from work. The photographs are great. A few areas that I thought were completely black actually printed with some details. That’s a pleasant surprise. The trial fit up of the keepsake cover with the prints and the booklet is perfect, so we are all set to start printing early next week. This weekend the CD for the folio will be finished. I can then begin making my prints for the show. Our first mat and frame “party” is April 9, so the prints must be ready by then.
It looks like smooth sailing the rest of the way, but…
It's always something...
Will I really have twenty prints? Yes, of course, but will they be the twenty prints selected for the show? Maybe not. I was looking at highly magnified images earlier this week trying to see which software won the sharpening versus noise reduction battle. I was slightly perturbed to notice a wall did not appear to be sharp. This was not a flaw in processing, but a focusing flaw. How, in the name of Daguerre, could an auto focus camera not focus on a wall? Walls are flat, they should be in focus. As I pondered this mystery of photography, I wondered if this was just a fluke of screen viewing or if I would have to go back to the curators and tell them this print wouldn’t be worthy of exhibition. The print size is right on the ragged edge of my camera’s capability to produce an excellent image, so any flaw will be readily apparent.
Ah, the analog world is chuckling as the engineer is hoist by his own petard. But herein is the analog to the digital world. I don’t know how many 35 millimeter negatives I trashed when I discovered what looked good on the proof sheet did not enlarge well. Same as it ever was. Proofing small, low resolution images masks the flaws that make them unsuitable for enlargement to exhibition size. I’ll know in a few days if I have to go back to the curators and ask them to substitute selections.
It’s always something.
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