Photos

the harbor office

This is the strange neo classical harbor office I mentioned yesterday. It’s strange, because the soviet architecture was more industrial. I have seen an example like this in the Riga harbor, but there prefab steel panels were used for the fassades, not wood. These prefab panels have windows in rubbers like in busses, and it looks very different.
In essence, this was not very different from our way of doing, but the biggest difference was the lack of motivation, care. And because of central planning, things look ‘similar’ where ever you go. One good thing is that people became creative, they found ways around the inevitable greyness, and working with Latvians reminds me this every day. Creativeness is there strongest asset.

If a pixel is a pixel….

I also included two workshops.
This photo is not interesting, and I would like to ask you not to comment on the lack of color, composition etc., but about methods to get the photos sharp with the limitation of 200 Kb and 800 pix. I need to learn here, and I hope that others in the process can also learn. If one of you has a different technique, or refinements, please explain your experience. This is not about points to me, it’s about learning and sharing.

So I used three different techniques, all in Photoshop;
All photo had the normal series of handling; rotation, crop, adjustment of brightness etc.
I leave these details away.
- this photo is edited using the safe for web function. Often, by saving you have to use the compression factor 10 or even 9, going down to 150Kb, because the larger option is 205Kb. I had the same problem here, so the posted photo is 144 Kb. Of coarse, I can go back, resize just a little bit smaller and then save on a lower compression.
The other methods are described with the workshops.

A pixel is a pixel, as is also said in the forum, so with a width of 700 pix, there is so much detail you can get in this photo. The differences are small between the three, but the last method is better when the photo has more color.

To be continued hopefully . . . .

PS2;
rotate, crop, adjusted brightness and contrast, resizing, added the border, sharpening and finally added the text.

this is part of small serie about the Latvian coast, and how the fishing ‘industry’ evolved over a century;
the old man and the sea
lost pier
soviet planning
Engure harbor

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