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

[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.