Here’s the equipment we used to shoot the pictures featured in Trip to the USA:
- Canon EOS 300, consumer-level 35mm SLR camera
- Tamron AF-Zoom 28-80mm, 1 : 3.5 – 5.6
- Tamron AF-Zoom 80-210mm, 1: 4.5 – 5.6
- Hama O-Haze (UV) filters and a polarization filter
- Hama mini tripod
- ASA 100 and 200 slide films by Agfa and Kodak
We usually shot one film per day (36 exposures) and ended up with a total of 800 slides. After a careful selection process, we submitted 100 slides for the production of a Kodak Photo CD.
Pictures on the Photo CD come in five resolutions: 192*128, 384*256, 768*512, 1536*1024, and 3072*2048. All the pictures we posted on this site were derived from the version with the highest resolution. I used Adobe Photoshop 4.0 on my G4 to prepare the pictures for the web. Here’s, roughly, what I did:
- Cropped image to get rid of the slide’s frame
- Applied Dust & Scratches filter if neccessary
- Corrected Levels, Brightness/Contrast, and Saturation/Lightness
- Applied Sharpen, Sharpen Edges, or Gaussian Blur filters, sometimes only to parts of the image
- Reduced image size, usually to 580 pixels
- Applied Unsharp Mask filter
- Increased canvas size by 10 pixels in all four directions