After a long break, I am back posting to the blog. I have a show at the school in October, so I'm gearing up for that. Scanning starts again next week, and I'm going to post a new photo every day till the show.

Today's photo is of musician John Hartford ( he wrote 'Gentle on My Mind', made famous by Glenn Campbell ) taken in March of 1972. ( I think I was in Kansas City. )

What I'm showing isn't so much the photo, but the difference it makes if I use Adobe's CS4 Bridge software and 'Open in Camera Raw' to bring the image into Photoshop. I really like the Raw controls, and the reason is in the following 2 photos.

The first photo was scanned as a Tiff, and opened directly into Photoshop. I couldn't get any detail on his face or the front of the guitar.

This photo was an early scan, off the first roll we did, and we've gotten better at it since then, but even with a less than perfect scan, I was able to get the following image from the same Tiff file that I used above. Notice the detail on his face and the improved wood grain on the guitar in the bottom image.

I now have to resist the urge to go back and redo all the images I've already worked on since I have so many more to go.

Remember, it's a new image posted every day from now on till the show.