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Through The Viewfinder Photographs by Paul Wasserman

Welcome

Introduction

Welcome to my first photo website. After many years of being asked "Do you have a website that I can see your pictures on?", I have finally decided to say yes. This is my first effort at website creation, so if you encounter any problems, mistakes, spelling/grammar errors or anything that just seems wrong, feel free to Send Mail to Paul

Before I travel to take photographs, I typically research online the best shooting locations and time of day. To help others, I geotagged the majority of the pictures included here. I also included the shooting meta data for each photograph. I hope you find this extra information useful.

All of the photographs on this website are copyrighted and all rights are reserved. Please respect that copyright. That said, if you have a need for a particular image (or images), just reach out to me (via email). I'm pretty sure that we will be able to work something out.

Photoshop

I shoot my photographs in raw mode. They all go through Photoshop's raw processing. I often adjust clarity, vibrance, highlights, shadows, etc. In addition, I shoot at a lot of popular National Parks with other visitors. I do occasionally remove visual distractions with the cloning and healing tools.

Colors

Getting consistent reproduction across the various devices that I use is hard. It is harder still to get consistent color reproduction across the web on devices that I don't even know about. The industry has worked to resolve this issue through the use of color management. The best way to view the photos on this website is to have a complete color managed system. I know most viewers will not have that. If the colors in these photographs look ok to you then I would not worry about it. If they look odd (most likely over saturated) you should consider checking if your browser has been configured properly. For Firefox, I recommend following the steps shown below.

1 Type about:config in Firefox's address bar
2 Use the filter field to search for gfx
3 Find gfx.color_management.mode and ensure it is set to 1

In addition, modern monitors can emulate a variety of color profiles. In the picture below, the monitor setup allows you to select its operating mode. Select sRGB for this website.

Site Creation

I used the wonderful jAlbum photo website creation software for most of this sites creation. It utilizes "Skins" which allow you to customize the look and feel of the web site. I used the "Turtle" skin. If you are interested in these tools, visit the following sites:
jAlbum
Turtle

Welcome

Introduction

Copyright

Photoshop

Colors

Site Creation