Hello I’m sorry but I always seem to be asking for advice but this is a whopper

I’ve had an image printed on to acrylic (10mm) and it’s arrived just in time for Fathers day.

Now Last Friday I supplied the printing & signage company with a Tiff file of an image I wanted printing and a small sample of the image for colour reference.
Wednesday I had a call from the company saying the following

We are sorry Mr Hodds we have done a test print of your image and we are not happy with it could you please contact us as we need to speak to you about this.

Also you have supplied us with a file that we can’t use we can not tweak the colours

Now when I first enquired about this project I did ask what file would you like and can you use tiff. So Wednesday I went down with another Disc and this time I add tiff, psd and a jpeg file out of desperation. So out I went with this time with a full size printed (A3+) image from the file’s on the disk for colour reference.

Both the Tiff and PSD file where 16 bit and the jpg was 8 bit

Any way when I saw the first image I nearly dropped through the floor.

Skin tone where, well lets say they where pumpkin orange. And had no resemblance to any of the files/references I had given them. On leaving the disc I explained the files on the disc and left it in there expert hands. After all they do this for a living.

Well I get the phone call to day your print is ready to be picked up. So down I go and this time it’s not as bad BUT, the skin tones are still orange the poor blonde boy in the image hair has lost detail and it looks like they have gamma poisoning, to add insult to injury the mid-tone are muddy.

And theirs more

I asked for a 4 pixel white stroke and even said “3mm white boarder”

The boarder is Grey (off white)

How can I assist the programmer and the printer and is it my fault.


James

Lighting question

I’ve been booked to take some images at a Dance competition

The Dance competition time table is to run over two weekends and I’m delighted that I have been chosen to set up a studio with in the dance competition for portraits of the dancers in there costumes. I will be printing on site and have a assistant to help set up and run the day with me, I am even going to teach him how to print from Photoshop

I hope this is going to be big for me as there will be many Dance schools in an attendance.

The main question is this I have studio flash head in abundance but for ease, constancy and speed would it be better to light the back ground with Continuous Lighting. I am planning to use a white back ground with coloured lee lighting filters to change the mood of the background. Studio flash heads(mixed lighting)will be used to light the subjects

Or....should I just stay with studio flash heads

James

these are the lighting heads I'm thinking of buying link

REVENUE

PURE AND SIMPLE REVENUE

James

Andrew did you use a remote trigger Hee

James

I all so agree with all that been said and we should be ready for criticism that's why we post our images?? isn't it


But Emma you have done some great work and have come a long way

James

ok I would like your advice on a bigger lens

should i go for the sigma 120-400mm or the 150-500mm

and what prices should I expect to pay second hand and before every one say's "I have one you can buy", I'm just window shopping I will not be looking for one until after Christmas

James

Thank you Gareth and Aliengrove

Looking at the raw image It did look a little bit blue but any way there is the Mono you requested Aliengrove spot on is the crop a bit big ?

Mr Prickly Mono




James

This is a (sorry) another image taken at Disney the birds placed so we can take photo of them with out looking to hard form them.

twins





can you still see me




Hope you are enjoying them and if you've had enough please tell me

James

This was taken from Disney's Magic kingdom's tree of life.

Mr Prickly





shot detail
Tripod and cable 55 300mm pentax lens

I like this shot for the simple reason the little creature dose look like he is coming from the under growth and is full of detail

Hope you enjoy this. I do have more from the tree of live if you wish i could add later

James

Gordon welcome

this is the best place to ask all your question

I have 2 K20 and love them IQ is excellent metering is also excellent how ever you can tweak the metering.

on the review did the K7 have the latest firmware installed?

James