"X" does not always mark the spot.
That was always a moment of high drama in those great movies from the 1930’s. Something so cosmic happened that a newspaper press had to be shut down and the lead story could be changed. One of my summer jobs was in a printing plant. When they started running one of those web presses, nothing was going to stop it. I had my moment on Monday night when I saw we had spelled “photrgphy” in one of the contributed documents. I sent a frantic email to the printer with a “Stop the presses!” subject line. The happy ending was the “job had not been plated” so nothing was lost. Ya know, it’s always something…
I love contradictions that make so much sense. It is so easy to start a project but it’s really difficult to finish it. I have noticed my enthusiasm waxes and wanes throughout this project. This isn’t my first rodeo and I expect that to happen. I mentioned a couple of posts back that I am at the point where the project is no fun and all work and sweating the details. I hope that will end this weekend as I finish up the CD making sure all the links work and the various documents open correctly. That task must be finished because next weekend is the first weekend mat and frame party for los tres amigos and sixty prints. (We hope that a couple of volunteers to ease the workload will be there, too.) We are just about three weeks away from hanging prints on the walls. But I really don’t want this to end. Isn’t that silly? Being in the throes of a project is very exciting and maybe I want that excitement to continue. I wonder if I am dragging my fee a little just because I don’t want the project to end.
To pick up from last week’s cliff hanger, I did print all twenty images last week and I was correct. There were three images that were not acceptable to me after the first printing. One was too dark. That was an easy fix. The two others were victims of excess HDR and wound up looking like they were photographed through a pebble glass filter. The images looked OK from about six feet away. As all photographers know, the correct viewing distance of a photograph is with your nose just about touching the glass. Print size does not matter. A real photographer is going to have his nose right up on the photograph. At that distance, the photograph did not look good. It had to be changed.
Back to the raw files and some more judicious selection raw files for processing. The second try looks much better, but it’s still not good enough. More effort will be expended this afternoon to beat these recalcitrant images into submission. Art can be violent, and I’m fixin’ to crack open a can of whupass on these misbehaving pixels.
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