Being a photographer, the introduction of a new Adobe product usually gets my attention. The announcement today of Photoshop Elements 6 was no exception. Even though I am a current user of Photoshop CS2, soon to be CS3, I have worked with Elements 4 and 5 in the past. With each of these previous versions I have been impressed with the capabilities and with what it has enabled me to do. I am currently looking at installing the Elements 6 on my laptop as it is simply not powerful enough to handle the full Photoshop CS versions of the product.
One thing that I have been very happy with in the previous versions of Elements is its ability to handle and process RAW files. I currently own Canon 20D and 40D SLR bodies and shoot exclusively in RAW. Shooting this way provides me with much more flexibility regarding photo processing and editing. In my opinion, if your digital camera has the ability to shoot in RAW format then you should be doing so. By not doing so I believe that you may not be getting the ultimate photo quality by doing otherwise. The newest RAW file version formats are available in Photoshop Elements 6.
I will be providing a review of this product in the next week or two.
Stay tuned.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
The joys of scanning unmounted 35mm slides
Today has been a very interesting day. I have a full time job (aka Monday to Friday) and I run a photographic company on the side (aka Monday to Friday, plus evenings and weekends). It does keep me busy.
As part of my photographic side business, Photo Field Imaging (http://www.photofieldimaging.com/), I not only do photography based work but I am also involved the with scanning of slides, photographs and negatives. 95% of the jobs that I do go very smoothly and everyone is happy. Every so often, like today (aka Sunday) something happens that really tests me.
Yesterday I had an older lady and her daughter deliver to me what she initially stated were about 200 slides to scan. I thought that this would not be a problem. I mean, I have the equipment, Nikon 5000 and 9000 series scanners, plus other flatbed scanners, that allow me to do almost any job. I thought, sure, a couple of hundred slides would not be an issue at all. I was in for a bit of a surprise.
As the lady and her daughter showed up she handed me a book. My initial reaction was, okay, where are the slides? "In the book" she said.
"Where, I do not see them?
"There" she said, pointing to page after page of carefully cut, umounted, 35mm slides.
I closed my eyes and said to myself "Oh no. Oh no. Please no." I then took a deep sigh and opened my eyes. What I thought was something that could be done easily and quickly turned out to me much work than what I initially anticipated. I told her that slides are usually mounted. She informed me that, yes, these are in fact slides (aka "film positives").
I thought to myself, "You know, this is not worth arguing over." I then told her that I would go ahead and do the job at the quoted price. What I did not tell her was that I would be updating my website to clearly state "35mm Mounted Slides" and would be chalking this one up to experience.
Such are the joys of scanning unmounted 35mm slides:)
As part of my photographic side business, Photo Field Imaging (http://www.photofieldimaging.com/), I not only do photography based work but I am also involved the with scanning of slides, photographs and negatives. 95% of the jobs that I do go very smoothly and everyone is happy. Every so often, like today (aka Sunday) something happens that really tests me.
Yesterday I had an older lady and her daughter deliver to me what she initially stated were about 200 slides to scan. I thought that this would not be a problem. I mean, I have the equipment, Nikon 5000 and 9000 series scanners, plus other flatbed scanners, that allow me to do almost any job. I thought, sure, a couple of hundred slides would not be an issue at all. I was in for a bit of a surprise.
As the lady and her daughter showed up she handed me a book. My initial reaction was, okay, where are the slides? "In the book" she said.
"Where, I do not see them?
"There" she said, pointing to page after page of carefully cut, umounted, 35mm slides.
I closed my eyes and said to myself "Oh no. Oh no. Please no." I then took a deep sigh and opened my eyes. What I thought was something that could be done easily and quickly turned out to me much work than what I initially anticipated. I told her that slides are usually mounted. She informed me that, yes, these are in fact slides (aka "film positives").
I thought to myself, "You know, this is not worth arguing over." I then told her that I would go ahead and do the job at the quoted price. What I did not tell her was that I would be updating my website to clearly state "35mm Mounted Slides" and would be chalking this one up to experience.
Such are the joys of scanning unmounted 35mm slides:)
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