Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937), US novelist
The Valley of Decision
The House of Mirth
Ethan Frome
The Reef
The Age of Innocence
A Backward Glance
布鲁克林靠近东河的地方，周末寂静的白天，如果告诉我在纵横的街道上偶尔出没的身影是有体温的鬼，我一点也不惊讶。
¿ I won’t be surprised by telling me the people gleamig on the streets along with East River are idle warm ghosts under the sun of the weekend Brooklyn.?
I hit the spot (Brooklyn Heights?) twice in rambling Brooklyn last year and got a total of 20 pieces. When reviewed them last week, I realized the best was this one, the first shot of the 20. All I wanted is almost here. Some with more close figures or with so-called meaningful figures are unnecessary. Still, for me, it works, “stop where/when you are hit by something and shoot it [zeyez
].”
- zeyez
第一次校色出了问题，再校校不过来，要重新扫描了。
穷人常有的事。关于在AdoramaPix打印。
Adorama: Red-ish? Yaohua Zheng apr 09, 2006; 09:26 p.m.
It’s the second time I got a batch of Adorama-prints what looked red- ish. I locked the most obvious parts, read the values from the convert-to-Adorama-profiled versions, and ended up finding, for example, a [193,191,204]cloud against bright watered-blue sky looked aglow in the print.
I don’t think it’s a story about so-called visual effect, because of the last frustration of my prints from Adorama. Several months ago I placed two separated orders with the same images and got two different batchs of prints, one’s OK while another’s red-ish. People could tell the lean toward red without experienced eye.
Something’s wrong, but don’t konw what and where it is, at my end or Adorama’s in the chain of process. (BTW, The equipment, the method and the flow have never been changed since the very first time I dealt with AdoramaPix.)
Still, I’ve been having my prints done in Adorama. Most of their work were perfect and even gave me more confidence in the adjustment by myself. What I’m not sure is, when the assignment has no room for time or quality, if I will consign my images to Adorama’s print.
Emre Safak apr 12, 2006; 10:05 p.m.
I found my recent lustre prints to be warm too. I even recalibrated my monitor just to be sure. Glad to know I am not alone!Yaohua Zheng apr 13, 2006; 12:25 a.m.
BUT, Dear Emre, I got the new batch of my prints from Adorama, it’s back to NORMAL! That’s why I think of it is a problem.Speaking of Lustre’s warm, I’d like to share something with you. I made a color chart in Adobe RGB space, converted it to Adorama_Lustre, Adorama_Glossy respectively, without any intervening, and got the values from the neutral grey rank:
A) Adobe [217,217,217] = Lustre [224,219,218] = Glossy [223,219,221]
B) Adobe [182,182,182] = Lustre [185,178,180] = Glossy [183,178,182]
C) Adobe [128,128,128] = Lustre [126,120,122] = Glossy [125,119,123]
D) Adobe [76,76,76] = Lustre [71,66,67] = Glossy [68,64,67]
E) Adobe [0,0,0] = Lustre [21,0,21] = Glossy [5,2,2]Not sure if the values are meaning for you. What important is, then I printed the Adorama_Lustre version of the chart in AdoramaPix and received a NORMAL print in which the neutral grey kept its colorlessness, no tincture of red.
It is that Adorama printed some of my photos red-ish at times.
Emre Safak , apr 13, 2006; 01:54 p.m.
I have three explanations:1. I made an error. I think this is unlikely as I recently calibrated my monitor (in total darkness), and inspected the prints under daylight.
2. The profiles are outdated. Indeed, DryCreekPhoto specifies the paper Adorama uses as Kodak Royal across the board, when in fact they use Kodak Endura for lustre. Of course, this might simply be a typo.
3. The instruction not to color correct the images is being ignored.I would ask technical support but they are on an extended vacation.
Yaohua Zheng , apr 15, 2006; 12:18 a.m.
I doubt them all.1. I viewed the red-ish prints under various lights and they kept red-ish.
2. The profiles I used were downloaded from Adorama. My first batch of red-ish prints was on the glossy paper.
3. The NNNN could be detected on every red-ish print’s back.Hope you finally talk the matter over with Adorama and share the secret here. (Which my English is not good enough to do)
如果犹太假期之后他真去问了，不知Adorama有什么说法。
Hi mynona, here’s another alone person, even among the stream of remonstrators in Times Square. This is the most important one, may the best one of protesting photos I took.
又写英文啦。
45 Road-Court House Square Station. The train’s leaving the station for Manhattan. I guess it’s the point from where most photos’ve been taken through the windows of 7′s. I had never thought of how I looked like in the car, gazing out with a camera held, till I took this.
说对了吗？
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