Proofs from Little Ferry Nursery School

[lesliepear]

Proofs from Little Ferry Nursery School, originally uploaded by lesliepear.

Alan's school proofs. Sadly, I don't think they are good - I know the color will be corrected but the facial expressions aren't great.

Hopefully the public school ones will be ok.

Comments

[mayna.livejournal.com]

I think props like the big pencil are really goofy. I didn't get any of Maylie's school pictures (not that I've even seen the proofs yet) because duh I do better than that, but I really would like the class composite photo.

[fukrware.livejournal.com]

Coming from your resident school photo processor... Those are terrible shots. I mean, don't get me wrong... Alan is terribly cute and I can't believe how big he's getting! But they could have done so much better. The color won't be much better as they have seriously overexposed his photos... they will still be extremey bright and blown out, and if they try to correct it he will just look grey or some other false color instead. Plus, the posing just plain stinks... it seems like they didn't really even try for a good pose, just told the kids to sit down and smile. However that's my take on it... But the kid is just as adorable as can be. :) Here's hoping for some good ones from public school.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I thought these were digital shots, so would come out better.

This is last year's proof sheet and even as a proof, it looks much better:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/113/307293098_749d5e7675.jpg

[fukrware.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they look digital to me, but regardless... if they're overexposed, it's impossible to bring back any color or features into the picture because it's just washed out and there's no "information" there so to speak. Last year's look much better, although still just tad overexposed... but not nearly as bad as this and definitely more manageable. I guess using the term "overexposed" is more of a film term, but they still kinda use the same terms for both film and digital... it does get confusing sometimes.

[steve98052.livejournal.com]

"Overexposed" is just as correct a term for digital as it is for film. The only difference is that the imaging chip is exposed past its dynamic range, rather than film being exposed to the limit of its exposure latitude.

In any case, if the chip is saturated, there's no getting the detail back.

I tried a histogram adjustment on the picture, and with a gamma correction of 0.6 and moderate midtone expansion I managed to get some detail back. I assume there's a lot more data in the full-sized images, so they might be tolerable. The problem is that they probably won't do that sort of adjustment unless the whole batch is like that and they can adjust them all at once with the same settings.

On the other hand, maybe these are scans of prints of digital images. In that case, the digital pictures could be just fine as-is.

The poses still aren't all that good though. But he's a cute little guy anyway.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I did scan it, but the bright face is visible in the original picture. The same place did photos the last 2 years and neither of the proofs is like that :(

[mayna.livejournal.com]

I was hoping they were just scanned in poorly (no offense or anything) and that the photographer isn't that inept. I mean, SERIOUSLY.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

There is such a difference in the soccer photo vs. the proofs - and I did them both on the same scanner.

[yeoww.livejournal.com]

I think they're cute! He's got a perfect little boy look going!

[daily-rant.livejournal.com]

Oh but I love the missing teeth!

[daily-rant.livejournal.com]

oh and iffy on the public school photos. After four kids and years and years of them, I'd say about 2/3 are good.

[marys-second.livejournal.com]

I don't like props or the poses for school pictures. Just line 'em up in front of the cloud background, wait until their eyes are open and their teeth are showing, and snap the picture.

[marley-station.livejournal.com]

Your son is a cutie.

My son turned 5 this past July and hasn't lost a single tooth. Our dentist doesn't seem to think there is anything amiss. I'm worried that they will all come out at once, I guess, LOL.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Everyone now thinks Alan lost his teeth because he's 5.
But what really happened is that when he was 9 months old he had a fall at daycare. The 4 bottom teeth (including 2 that weren't in yet) were removed and the top 2 were loosend. At age 3, I bumped his mouth accidentally, and he lost one top tooth a week later. About 6 months later the other top tooth came out (a week after the dentist looked at it and said it would go soon).

I'be glad when he has all his teeth again!

[rodluvan.livejournal.com]

The proof pictures are very nice