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Re-try with LAB, placing the black and grey points differently:

(...which is a British expression -- it means, approximately, 'Oh my goodness' :D ) LAB duck: 2007-01-23_145313-duck-TB.jpg RGB duck: 2007-01-23_145313-duck-RGB.jpg I'm not sure which is better, honestly. It seems that you'd use them for different purposes. The LAB way seems to provide richer colour...

*squint*

Given the surreal quality of much of the landscape there, this must be what the moon looks like all the time in South Africa!

Hand-held, really?! Is your new camera a telescope?

A very conservative start

Whew, glad you're not offended. But that's a very nice thing about you, Greg -- you're hard to offend You take things that come up as learning opportunities, for everyone including yourself, and that's a good thing in a teacher.

In looking more closely at the actual photos, which were of course chosen and arranged by someone which is why they seem so uniform despite their diversity, another reason they look like advertising is that they resemble the aspirational/"motivational" quality of a lot of ads -- see pp 80-...

I think we may all be saying the same thing here, albeit from different perspectives. As a magazine editor, the thing that bothers me about this magazine initially is the (quite standard -- advertisers request this) placement of the ads in RHP position -- i.e. on the right-hand pages, so that when y...

I do too -- but I'm not sure they're the same mixed feelings. I work in magazine publishing so it's difficult for me not to notice the tricks of the trade, which tend to distract my attention from the photos themselves and, I feel, make them all look like the same kind of thing within the context of...