Avebury in Winter: A Photographic Essay by Michael Allen

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In a few years’ time, of course, everything will change. We shall all have a broadband connection, and our computers will work faster than ever. And then, perhaps, photographers the world over will be able to offer their work to viewers in fabulous detail and at a very modest cost.

The light levels varied between blindingly bright and almost dark. Given the presence of snow, and the fast speed of the film, there was almost too much light about at times. After development, the films were scanned on to Kodak Photo CD discs. The scanned images were then manipulated in the ‘digital darkroom’, using Photoshop 3; this program does all that I require of it, and more. When preparing this ebook, I used the Serif PagePlus 8 layout program. This I would describe as ‘cheap and 33 cheerful’ – effective enough for the average piece of desktop publishing, but not a professional tool.

Well, of course, I would have liked to provide pictures at, say, 300 pixels per inch; this would fill the viewer’s screen and allow for zooming in to examine areas of detail if so desired. But, at present, that simply is not practical. After a number of experiments, I decided that images with a nominal size of 6 inches wide would be a reasonable compromise. Resolution has had to be limited to 96 pixels per inch. In a few years’ time, of course, everything will change. We shall all have a broadband connection, and our computers will work faster than ever.

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