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[Chuck Snyder]

Leen, your images are magnificent. Thank you for sharing your work with us!
Chuck

[Grant Dixon]

Leen

Wonderful web site. Now if I ever get married , perish the thought, and if
I ever get to Holland, now that is an idea, I will have you do it. Great
work.

Grant

[Grant Dixon]

Wonderful collage Jane!

Grant

[Jodi Frye]

WOW these are gorgeous ! But of course you already know that ;)

[Jane Carter]

Lets see more of our forum people post more garden, flower, fireworks, wedding, and more pictures of pretty subjects.
Thanks, Jane

[Leen Koper]

Grant, if you ever get married, I promise I will come over to cover your wedding. ;-))

I've covered a wedding in the USA before, in Meredith, New Hampshire. Some of the images are on my website: the bride at a pool on the front page, the bride and groom (with high hat) tossing around and some others.

It was a wonderful experience to be in such lovely surroundings as near Lake Winnepesauky (I hope I spell well). I always thought US wedding photographers carefully chose these lovely locations. Now I know they have to try hard to avoid this scenery!

In short, I enjoyed my 40 hours in the USA; next time however I'll bring my own coffee!!!

Leen

[RobertHJones]

Leen,

I'm curious about something.

I've talked to several wedding photographers here in the US and they tell me
the majority of their sales is in prints 8x10 and smaller, but they do sell
a significant number of larger prints -- 11x14 and 16x20 are popular and an
occasional 20x30 or larger.

I would expect that you also sell larger prints. What resolution do you
normally use to scan your negatives? Do you work with a lower resolution
scan adequate for 11x14 or 16x20 prints and rescan at higher resolution and
reprocess the image if someone wants a "monster" sized print? What's the
largest sized print you can do "in-house"?

Thanks. Just curious,
Bob

[Grant Dixon]

Dan

Of course we insist ;-) Nice photo ... my lilies are not much more than
green leaves as of yet.

Grant

[Chuck Snyder]

Dan, beautiful photo - very vibrant colors and the soft background really
accentuates the bloom. What camera are you using?

Chuck

[Leen Koper]

Thank you all for the compliments. But I expected something else.

Funny, I expected a lot of reactions on the images of the wedding of the two brides - no grooms involved.

This was one of the most wonderful shootings I ever did. I wasnot sure about how to cover this event; at first I was thinking about compositions concentrated around the two white triangles of the dresses.
However, right after the first shot, I was overwhelmed by the tenderness and caring love between these partners.
I tried to capture this mood and I thought I succeeded and I was so proud of myself. That's why I wanted you all to share my feelings.

Life is great, being a photographer!

Leen

[Leen Koper]

Hi Robert(message #12)

I do hardly any scanning; I use a digital camera, the Fuji S2, The output of this camera in the highest setting (and I don't use any other settings) will print about 30x40 cm (12x16 inches) at 254 dpi.
I learned most images from digital cameras can be enlarged about 4 times in a linear way. And this proves to be right applying bicubic scaling.
I sold quite some 50x75 cm (20x30 inches) images without any problem. In the display of my high street studio I show at the moment three of these images. A friend of mine even has printed 120x180 cm, that's 48x72 inches at 180 dpi, but that's no problem as the viewing distance of these images is different. And, he even doesnot use Photoshop Elements, just only the full version.... ;-))

Here, in the Netherlands there are so many high quality professional labs; hardly any photographer does his own processing in house. I know it is different in the UK, Germany and Belgium because it seems most of these pro labs don't work to the same standards.

However, things are changing quickly. In portraiture I do a lot of printing on my Epson 2100 printer, but within a few weeks I think I will be buying an Epson 7600 that will allow me to print up to 24 inches wide.
I just got to find a place for it.

Leen

[Dick Smith]

Here's a Tulip <http://ncsmiths.com/pages/flower.html> that I took earlier this spring at the Biltmore Estate Gardens in Asheville, NC.

Dick

[Ray]

Double WOW ! It looks terrific !

Ray

[Chuck Snyder]

Leen, I've been paging through your albums and really love your work. I was
curious about your technique on one in particular: it's the 5th image
(counting across and then down) on page 8 of the wedding section. It's a
very striking black-and-white in the true sense of that description - just
black and white, no grays. Did you use posterizing in Elements to create
that? Wonderful shot....!

Chuck

[DS Nelson]

Chuck,

I'm using an Olympus C-700. I use the macro setting for most flower shots, but for this one I backed up a little and zoomed in. That seemed to give a shallower depth of field than macro mode.

Dan

[Chuck Snyder]

Dan, thanks - I'll have to try that technique!

Chuck

[Chuck Snyder]

Leen, thanks for the reply. My first few batches of bright sunlight images
were very blown out in the highlights, even at the unadjusted auto-exposure
point. I've set my cameras to default at -1/3 stop when doing sunlight
shots; they wind up a little drab before touchup, but at least the detail in
the highlights is usually preserved. Elements Levels, Curves or even auto
contrast brings back the 'sparkle'...!

Chuck

[Jane Carter]

More flowers,
<http://www.pbase.com/jcarter/flowers_and_nice_stuff>
These are last years.
Jane

[Chuck Snyder]

Jane, I love 'em all, but the bluelace is extra special. The cluster has so
many colors and textures, and it's perfectly framed by the large blooms.
Amazing! Hope you've printed that one!!

[Grant Dixon]

Leen

"Funny, I expected a lot of reactions on the images of the wedding of the
two brides - no grooms involved."

No problem in Canada as we are the third country in the world to recognize
same sex marriages, behind Holland and Belgium if I am not mistaken. I
suspect love is love no matter how you slice it.

Grant