Artist's description:
This is not one of my best images, technically, but I love the expressions of the two men -- "friendly guy" on the left, and "leave me alone guy" on the right. It was shot with Plus-X with a Honeywell H-1, Takumar 55mm f/2.2 semiautomatic lens (which had all the smoothness of a jackhammer). Interestingly, I isolated the two figures and superimposed them in front of a stone house I photographed in Maryland with a Canon EOS 10D, 28-135 mm IS USM lens at 38 mm, f/9.5, 1/60 sec.
Artist's technical assessment of the image quality:
Sharpness: fair
Camera shake: considerable, with the two men (see detail images)
grain: moderate
Compression artifact: n/a
Chromatic aberration: n/a
Distortion: none
Maximum acceptable enlargement: I wouldn't enlarge this image any more than 11x14.
Image detail:
*These are swatches from the image when magnified to the indicated size, as viewed on the average 17" monitor at 1024x768 pixels. They show you the actual sharpness of the print that will hang on your wall. If you have a smaller monitor or have your monitor configured with more pixels, you should "imagine" these swatches a bit larger. Please note that compression artifact (including checkering and banding around higher contrast edges) may be evident as you view these images online. This is a compromise in jpeg images that makes them quicker to load on a web page. The printed image will not have these defects, unless noted under "Artist's technical assment of the image quality. (See "Compression artifact")."