Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]do you keep a digital "reference print" on your screen when you photoshop up an image? or visit some websites of nice images? it's so easy to go too far with contrast or sharpening and you can get raster fever after a while. - -rei > From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> > Some people (often myself) print a face unnaturally bright to make it "pop." > An over all high key print i believe is called "Salon Printing." > > Fine art photographers will not hold back on the face so much but let them be > more naturally dark. > > Reference prints hanging on the walls of your darkroom are a good thing so you > are not left dangling so much with a limp test strip. Hang up your fave images > up to glance at when you look at your tests. Then you can make them measure up! > > > Mark Rabiner > > Portland, Oregon > USA > > http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/ >