nicolas claris
OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Asher did initiate a discussion about planning photography for quality output, mentioning the aperture that could be used too "small", i.e. ƒ16 Here
Many aspect including photosites size/ƒ ratio.
An interesting debate, always good to learn (well, what I understand, at least).
Thanks for that!
Here I would like to introduce a "based on experience" post production tip.
Although it is "based on experience" this does not mean that theory cannot explain… (Allo? Bart? Doug? do you hear me? ; )
So, one main aspect I realized is that when sending a file to be printed, till a short while, I have always sent JPEGs with minimal compression (setting 12 in PS).
Mind you, sent a tif instead and you'll recover many micro details that were lost in the minimal jpeg compression.
Of course this is particularly true with detailed original file and large prints.
The labs or printers will claim that they loose time as ripping takes many more minutes to achieve, but why spend long time to prepare the files if a lot of qualities will be lost when ripping.
Of course sending a 16 bit tif file would be even better, but there are not so many rips accepting these…
So, even before avoiding shooting at ƒ16, shoot raw, work your files in tif 16 bit and print 8 bit files.
: D
Many aspect including photosites size/ƒ ratio.
An interesting debate, always good to learn (well, what I understand, at least).
Thanks for that!
Here I would like to introduce a "based on experience" post production tip.
Although it is "based on experience" this does not mean that theory cannot explain… (Allo? Bart? Doug? do you hear me? ; )
So, one main aspect I realized is that when sending a file to be printed, till a short while, I have always sent JPEGs with minimal compression (setting 12 in PS).
Mind you, sent a tif instead and you'll recover many micro details that were lost in the minimal jpeg compression.
Of course this is particularly true with detailed original file and large prints.
The labs or printers will claim that they loose time as ripping takes many more minutes to achieve, but why spend long time to prepare the files if a lot of qualities will be lost when ripping.
Of course sending a 16 bit tif file would be even better, but there are not so many rips accepting these…
So, even before avoiding shooting at ƒ16, shoot raw, work your files in tif 16 bit and print 8 bit files.
: D