I decided that I needed to get the version 1.1 rewrite completed for the Sharpening Photographs for Blurb Printing book. My thoughts are fresh and I am motivated. A good combination. And it is taking most of the day. I did not think that it needed that many edits, but considering that this was a long... Continue Reading →
SoFoBoMo print proof
Places Amongst Us by Douglas Stockdale Yesterday afternoon I received my "printing proof" of my SoFoBoMo book Places Amongst Us, my softbound printed by Blurb. And of course, its one of those good news, bad news things. First the bad news. I am a goof. Okay, the very first thought as I open the Burb mailer;... Continue Reading →
Despecklation
An interesting thing happened to me while I was working my way through the image sharpening for Blurb, I learned more about noise reduction. huh? Okay, I have to admit, up to now, I just accepted noise in my digital images. I could easily see the noise in the skyes of my toned images for... Continue Reading →
Evaluating my sharpening how-to book – part II
I have continued to look and then look again at the various test images in my book Sharpening Photogoraphs for Blub Prining for many times. And I have come to conculsion that I had not selected the best Unsharp Mask setting to get the best results with Blurb printing with the HP Indigo 5000 halftone printer. But I do... Continue Reading →
Near miss
As I worked on my project Places Amongst Us, there was the frustration that photographs that I really liked were on film and due to my image process, did not make the final cut. But I also see that I missed a short term goal, there is still the long term journey, of which this series... Continue Reading →
SoFoBoMo after the fact
Having just completed my SoFoBoMo book it is probably a good time to reflect while the memories of this project are still fresh. So in very random order: Deciding to try this with film and scanning was a mistake for ME. My film processing, scanning and image processing work-flow is too slow. Digital work flow... Continue Reading →
Hasselblad mirror blues
While working on the film scans for my SoFoBoMo series, one tiny little thing kept dogging me, why was I getting some slight blurriness to my images. Not every image, but enough. Okay, way toooo many. This was another of those distracts that made me wonder, was I just producing crap in this 30 days and if... Continue Reading →
Places Amongst Us
My SoFoBoMo for 2008 is complete! I just uploaded my Blurb BookSmart template and did all of the neccessary things and ordered my production proof of Places Amongst Us. And so it is now out there. Done for the moment. And I feel it almost was not going to happen and in retrospect, choosing to... Continue Reading →
SoFoBoMo Finish line
It does appear that I am going to finish my SoFoBoMo project in the Month of May. I just did the last edit on my project Places Amongst Us in my Blurb book template. So tomorrow morning, I will give it another review and then upload to Blurb and order my first copy. The way... Continue Reading →
Sharpening Photographs for Blurb Printing
"Front Patio I" from the series "Places Amongst Us", copyright of Douglas Stockdale Well this is a strange series of events. It now appears that my first published book (Blurb) is going to be technical How-To. I just uploaded and made available my book "Sharpening Photographs for Blurb Printing". For those who have been following... Continue Reading →
