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Cannes is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The city is known for its association with the rich and famous, its luxury hotels and restaurants, and for several conferences. On 3 November 2011 it hosted the 2011 G20 summit [Wikipedia.org]
Workflow: Ricoh GR in-camera RAW-development, inserted SD-card into Canon M3, transferred photo to phone via app, finally processed with VSCOcam with a1 preset
"It is said that the sorceress of the Dusk Order can be found in every major kingdom known to man, where they bide their time pursuing their myriad agendas."
Work in Progress Notation: One of the most frustrating things, if unavoidable, is detail degradation. It can be very disheartening to spend a lot of time working on small details that dissolve when transferred to SL.
The images on the left are the base texture renders in Zbrush (Which means that it is just the texture in fullbright, no actual light or shadow rendering.) Even here, a lot of detail is lost from the original. The image on the right is in Second Life, where another chunk of details have been smoothed away and lost.
Comes with the territory, but it can be frustrating sometimes! If something important is lost however, that is a very good time to open the texture back up in photoshop for some detailing to bring out those important details.
I know I said I'd be back when I posted my last pic which was.... 3 years ago... Fail. Life got crazy and here I am three years later.
Much of the last three years can be found on my Instagram so follow me there and you can stalk the past three years of my life haha.
Instagram.com/_raybaybay_
This was taken while at work one day and I liked the play of the sunlight coming in the windows behind me :) Link below is the Instagram link for this pic specifically. It is about 7 months old.
I also don't have a nice camera right now so everything is going to be just my iPhone 6. I will most likely upload choice past pictures from my Instagram as well as new ones I may take :) I am definitely going to try to get a nicer camera back into my life because I miss going out and shooting and using my creative side for something more than just an Instagram post.
I miss the community on here and chatting with all y'all. I'll try to be more present. I promise!!! Can't wait to see what you all have been up to the last three years I've been away!
Favorite or leave a comment and you will probably get a better chance of me looking at your profile too btw :)
Images 1-3 are varying exposures of the same scene, taken on a tripod.
HDR Image was prepared using the Photoshop CS2: automate -> merge to HDR. White point was set, then the conversion to HDR was done by the Exposure/Gamma method.
HDR image was then perspective corrected (to correct for wideangle lens distortion, especially evident on the closest vertical pillar) using the PTLens plugin and profile for the Olympus Zuiko 14-45 lens.
I'm sure this could still be much improved, but in comparison to all of the overprocessed, trendy, fake looking HDR I've seen lately I think I've used the process as it is intended.
The HDR image can be seen here LARGE.
Single in September 2017
Pentax M50/1.4
Day 7
The dust mask, especially the N95 version, an essential piece of PPE when dealing with cargoes such as grain and iron ore.
Massimo Vitali looking his enormous diptych, a LightJet print from a 2.7 Gb drum scan provided by CastorScan.
When the Lightjet and scan operator of Grieger opened our 2.7 Gb file he exclaimed "WOW" and he told us that he never saw such an high quality of file and scan.
The final LightJet print was amazing, and it matched perfectly the colors and the natural smothness of an analogue print: the color fidelity was absolutely incredible. Also, it showed a detail, a precision, a contrast and a flatness of field much better than any possible analogue print.
Honestly, it's extremely difficult to find a print of comparable quality anywhere.
Considering that Grieger is probably the most famous photo lab in the world and there every day they print pictures by Gursky, Struth, Ruff, Demand, etc etc...not bad
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CastorScan's philosophy is completely oriented to provide the highest scan and postproduction
quality on the globe.
We work with artists, photographers, agencies, laboratories etc. who demand a state-of-the-art quality at reasonable prices.
Our workflow is fully manual and extremely meticulous in any stage.
We developed exclusive workflows and profilation systems to obtain unparallel results from our scanners not achievable through semi-automatic and usual workflows.
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CastorScan uses the best scanners in circulation, Dainippon Screen SG-8060P Mark II, the best and most advanced scanner ever made, Kodak-Creo IQSmart 3, a high-end flatbed scanner, and Imacon 848.
The image quality offered by our Dainippon Screen 8060 scanner is much higher than that achievable with the best flatbed scanners or filmscanners dedicated and superior to that of scanners so-called "virtual drum" (Imacon – Hasselblad,) and, of course, vastly superior to that amateur or prosumer obtained with scanners such as Epson V750 etc .
Dainippon Screen SG-8060P Mark II exceeds in quality any other scanner, including Aztek Premier and ICG 380 (in the results, not just in the technical specifications).
8060's main features: 12000 dpi, Hi-Q Xenon lamp, 25 apertures, 2 micron
Aztek Premier's main features: 8000 dpi, halogen lamp, 18 apertures, 3 micron
ICG 380's main features: 12000 dpi, halogen lamp, 9 apertures, 4 micron
Some of the features that make the quality of our drum scanners better than any other existing scan system include:
The scans performed on a drum scanner are famous for their detail, depth and realism.
Scans are much cleaner and show fewer imperfections than scans obtained from CCD scanners, and thus save many hours of cleaning and spotting in postproduction.
Image acquisition by the drum scanner is optically similar to using a microscopic lens that scans the image point by point with extreme precision and without deformation or distortion of any kind, while other scanners use enlarger lenses (such as the Rodenstock-Linos Magnagon 75mm f8 used in the Hasselblad-Imacon scanners) and have transmission systems with rubber bands: this involves mild but effective micro-strain and micro-geometric image distortions and quality is not uniform between the center and edges.
Drum scanners are exempt from problems of flatness of the originals, since the same are mounted on a perfectly balanced transparent acrylic drum; on the contrary, the dedicated film scanners that scan slides or negatives in their plastic frames are subject to quite significant inaccuracies, as well as the Imacon-Hasselblad scanners, which have their own rubber and plastic holders: they do not guarantee the perfect flatness of the original and therefore a uniform definition between center and edge, especially with medium and large size originals, which instead are guaranteed by drum scanners.
Again, drum scanners allow scanning at high resolution over the entire surface of the cylinder, while for example the Hasselblad Imacon scans are limited to 3200 dpi in 120 format and 2000 dpi in 4x5" format (the resolution of nearly every CCD scanner in the market drops as the size of the original scanned is increased).
Drum scanners allow complete scanning of the whole negative, including the black-orange mask, perforations etc, while using many other scanners a certain percentage of the image is lost because it is covered by frames or holders.
Drum scanners use photomultiplier tubes to record the light signal, which are much more sensitive than CCDs and can record many more nuances and variations in contrast with a lower digital noise.
If you look at a monitor at 100% the detail in shadows and darker areas of a scan made with a CCD scanner, you will notice that the details are not recorded in a clear and clean way, and the colors are more opaque and less differentiated. Additionally the overall tones are much less rich and differentiated.
We would like to say a few words about an unscrupulous and deceitful use of technical specifications reported by many manufacturers of consumer and prosumer scanners; very often we read of scanners that promise cheap or relatively cheap “drum scanner” resolutions, 16 bits of color depth, extremely high DMAX: we would like to say that these “nominal” resolutions do not correspond to an actual optical resolution, so that even in low-resolution scanning you can see an enormous gap between drum scanners and these scanners in terms of detail, as well as in terms of DMAX, color range, realism, “quality” of grain. So very often when using these consumer-prosumer scanners at high resolutions, it is normal to get a disproportionate increase of file size in MB but not an increase of detail and quality.
To give a concrete example: a drum scan of a 24x36mm color negative film at 3500 dpi is much more defined than a scan made with mostly CCD scanner at 8000 dpi and a drum scan at 2500 dpi is dramatically clearer than a scan at 2500 dpi provided by a CCD scanner. So be aware and careful with incorrect advertisement.
Scans can be performed either dry or liquid-mounted. The wet mounting further improves cleanliness (helps to hide dirt, scratches and blemishes) and plasticity of the image without compromising the original, and in addition by mounting with liquid the film grain is greatly reduced and it looks much softer and more pleasant than the usual "harsh" grain resulting from dry scans.
We use Kami SMF 2001 liquid to mount the transparencies and Kami RC 2001 for cleaning the same. Kami SMF 2001 evaporates without leaving traces, unlike the traditional oil scans, ensuring maximum protection for your film. Out of ignorance some people prefer to avoid liquid scanning because they fear that their films will be dirty or damaged: this argument may be plausible only in reference to scans made using mineral oils, which have nothing to do with the specific professional products we use.
We strongly reiterate that your original is in no way compromised by our scanning liquid and will return as you have shipped it, if not cleaner.
With respect to scanning from slides:
Our scanners are carefully calibrated with the finest IT8 calibration targets in circulation and with special customized targets in order to ensure that each scan faithfully reproduces the original color richness even in the most subtle nuances, opening and maintaining detail in shadows and highlights. These color profiles allow our scanners to realize their full potential, so we guarantee our customers that even from a chromatic point of view our scans are noticeably better than similar scans made by mostly other scan services in the market.
In addition, we remind you that our 8060 drum scanner is able to read the deepest shadows of slides without digital noise and with much more detail than CCD scanners; also, the color range and color realism are far better.
With respect to scanning from color and bw negatives: we want to emphasize the superiority of our drum scans not only in scanning slides, but also in color and bw negative scanning (because of the orange mask and of very low contrast is extremely difficult for any ccd scanner to read the very slight tonal and contrast nuances in the color negative, while a perfectly profiled 8060 drum scanner – also through the analog gain/white calibration - can give back much more realistic images and true colors, sharper and more three-dimensional).
In spite of what many claim, a meticulous color profiling is essential not only for scanning slides, but also, and even more, for color negatives. Without it the scan of a color negative will produce chromatic errors rather significant, thus affecting the tonal balance and then the naturalness-pleasantness of the images.
More unique than rare, we do not use standardized profiles provided by the software to invert each specific negative film, because they do not take into account parameters and variables such as the type of development, the level of exposure, the type of light etc.,; at the same time we also avoid systems of "artificial intelligence" or other functions provided by semi-automatic scanning softwares, but instead we carry out the inversion in a full manual workflow for each individual picture.
In addition, scanning with Imacon-Hasselblad scanners we do not use their proprietary software - Flexcolor – to make color management and color inversion because we strongly believe that our alternative workflow provides much better results, and we are able to prove it with absolute clarity.
At each stage of the process we take care of meticulously adjusting the scanning parameters to the characteristics of the originals, to extrapolate the whole range of information possible from any image without "burning" or reductions in the tonal range, and strictly according to our customer's need and taste.
By default, we do not apply unsharp mask (USM) in our scans, except on request.
To scan reflective originals we follow the same guidelines and guarantee the same quality standard.
We guarantee the utmost thoroughness and expertise in the work of scanning and handling of the originals and we provide scans up to 12,000 dpi of resolution, at 16-bit, in RGB, GRAYSCALE, LAB or CMYK color mode; unless otherwise indicated, files are saved with Adobe RGB 1998 or ProPhoto RGB color profile.
Used thumbs+ to replace some colors, Have not worked out if the a6k can do an in-camera key colour
from C:\Users\User\Pictures\My Pictures\Dell 2020\07 Jul 15 general
see camera lens search www.goat.vision/search/SONY/ILCE-6000/
Workflow: Negs processed by apetureuk.com
Raw file scanned with Reflecta RPS 10m @ 2,500dpi
Imported to Lightroom, then 'edit copy in Photoshop' selected. Colorperfect filter applied in Photoshop then saved. Colour, sharpness and N/R applied in Lightroom.
Nikon F5
Carl Zeiss ZF.2 2/28 Distagon T*
Kodak Gold 200@400
Developed & scanned by Carmencita Film Lab in Valencia, Spain
With Biscione&Associati S.r.l.: an infographic explaining the commercial offer from INAZ, part of a larger work
The end result of this madness is that, while shooting in the studio, photos can be immediately reviewed on the ipad, projected on the wall, uploaded to flickr and entered into my lightroom library, all by just pressing the shutter on my camera.
A funny aspect of this is that it only covers the workflow that involves ingesting photos into lightroom. The workflow from lightroom to the thunderbolt raid, followed by cloud backup, is just as amusing.