Great Tour De France photo essay by the Boston Globe

[the other Steve Dennis]

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The Boston Globe has a wonderful two part photo essay of this years Tour online here:
[url]http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/07/2008_tour_de_france.html[/url]
part two here:
[url]http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/07/2008_tour_de_france_conclusion.html[/url]

Some great photos that capture the essence of the Tour.
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[Andrew G]

The photos are excellent, but what stands out for me is the quality of reproduction on a web page. Far better than anything I've seen anywhere else, like a transparency on a light box.

[Andrew G]

[quote="Sean Hogan - 何祥"]Proper cameras do that matey, not the poxxy kit we're used to using. Probably used a Canon EOS 1D Mark III.

[Elliot M]

i don't know much about taking photos, but i have prepared a lot for low res display on the web in my time. one factor is that they have been carefully sharpened after sizing down. you have to do this manually to get decent results.

if you just batch resize a bunch of images and stick them on the web they will tend to look a little blurry. if you then resharpen a little they'll look better. in my experience you get better results if you scale down say 50%, resharpen just enough to bring back the detail, scale down another 50%, resharpen etc. there are also more complicated techniques to bring back small detail without introducing speckling in flat areas of colour, eg skies.

[Snoop Doug]

Stuff all the techno talk - these pics are just bootiful. Great find Steve - thanks

Snoop

[Mike I]

Great pics, but shame about the annoying use of the word 'pack' in the captions. A pack is a group of cub scouts, not cyclists .

[Snoop Doug]

[quote="Sean Hogan - 何祥"]Or a pack of cigarettes.