Comments for Lumière d'Argent

Comment on Slow Start for 2008 by Cécile

Cécile — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:12:32 +0000

Hello Stéphane,
Un petit mot car je pense souvent à toi… à notre conversation lors de notre soirée l’année passée à propos de notre gouvernement par exemple.
Et puis je passe souvent par ici pour regarder ta “galerie”… et cette “nouvelle” photo me parle beaucoup, pour la lumière, entre orage et clarté, cette nature qui donne à mieux regarder, sentir, humer l’air presque.
Merci! Un petit bonheur sur l’écran.
Belles journées à toi.

Bisous anderlechtois!

Cécile

Comment on Motivation and Small Readership by Colin Griffiths

Colin Griffiths — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:51:09 +0000

You will be be pleased that I’ve just added you to my feed then! I was interested in your write up on scanning.

Comment on Epson V750: Good enough for 35mm? by Gleb Baida

Gleb Baida — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:24:03 +0000

You wrote: “Another thing I’d like to try sometimes is to develop for much higher contrast. A film like TMax 100 could very well be suited for that experiment. The idea is that the heavy levels adjustment to get the contrast back should also amplify grain. If the neg was of higher contrast, this effect could be reduced and maybe I could get scans with even less grain”.

That is what I felt myself, trying to get as good scan from a negative as from B&W positive ( with respect to grain). I get better grain when scanning B&W slide (AGFA SCALA or dr5 processing), which has high density range.
Regards, Gleb.

Comment on Reworking the Galleries by Doug Stockdale

Doug Stockdale — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:02:25 +0000

Yes, well done! I look forward to seeing more from this series;- ) Now, what about a current series, as this was all photographed a couple of years ago, I believe?? Trust me, one series does soon lead to another, oui?

Comment on Stills by Doug Stockdale

Doug Stockdale — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:57:58 +0000

It is nice to start to see these images together as it creates a refined and unique context. But I don’t recall seeing ‘Frige’ posted on Stills yet! That is a very surreal image, but seems to work well with the rest of the series.

Comment on Stills by matt

matt — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:12:57 +0000

It’s interesting to get to see all these together in one gallery. One of things that I couldn’t figure out how to make work at stills was a way to show a chronology of posts from one poster.

Comment on Merry Xmas! by Chris

Chris — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:53:57 +0000

And a Merry Christmas to you also. I came here from Colin’s site; I’m sure that your blog will also take a headline position in my feed reader.

Comment on SmugMug Prints Arrived by Stephane

Stephane — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:32:35 +0000

Andy,

Thanks for all this. You really provide outstanding support!

However, if all it took was a tweaking of the files, I’d be working with SmugMug today. The reasons I don’t are:

1/ No practical way to have custom files for each format of each photo. That makes it impossible to produce prints of a controlled size independent of the paper size in order to provide a white border for framing purposes.

2/ Branding. Right or wrong, I’d rather have my customers feel they buy from me than from a third party. In their mind, if they want a print from me, it means they trust me, not a third party I would impose to them. Especially if it is for portraiture. Of course they can imagine I don’t make mugs myself, but there is no reason why they should deal with anyone else.

Regarding the metamerism failure, I will try to get more prints from EM. I appears it is a problem with B&W on Fuji Frontier, so they should be affected too (and I am worried now). If it is not solvable, I’ll resume doing the printing myself. I am not sure how soft proofing can help to evaluate tints that only appear under some lighting.

PS: Thanks for the compliment!

Comment on SmugMug Prints Arrived by Andy Williams

Andy Williams — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:46:14 +0000

Hi, I’m your House Professional at SmugMug

I’d love to investigate your order - we unconditionally guarantee every single print .. if you wouldn’t mind writing our help desk ATTN: Andy in the subject line, and sending me your order#, I’ll review it and get back to you. I do tons and tons of black and white work myself, but our lab isn’t set up for “true black and white” yet, so it sometimes takes a bit of special tweaking to get the files just right for B&W. I hope you’ll contact me and I look forward to working on this with you, and getting you prints you are thrilled with Thanks!

PS: Your stuff is really good, I particularly liked the Dungeness shot and Kent in the Mist!

Comment on Print Pricing by Stephane

Stephane — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:56:20 +0000

Doug, I understand your point. I feel I have to find out how much one is ready to give to have a print from me.

Regarding the framing-price ratio, I don’t know. Nothing stops the customer to chose an expensive framing. I’d rather not decide that ratio for the customer.