Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark: You're right. So I made the frame whiter than white, with Oxydol. But tonight I also did a color version, which I like better. For some reason last night I couldn't stand the color version no matter what I did. I thought the B&W version was too dark, but when I made it lighter, it looked pasty. Tonight I got things reasonable with the color. The mixed light is really weird, but it is what it is. I guess if I was shooting for a newspaper I would have used flash to match the daylight in the background, but available light chauvanist that I am. . . New color version: http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/Victoria/20AlexDavidBow.htm B&W version: http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/Victoria/20AlexDavidBowBW.htm Oh, BTW, last week I saw a news photo of Fay Wray on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, 71 years since Da Big Gorilla dragged her up there. --Peter At 04:56 AM 5/17/04 -0700, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: >The grey background is making it look greyer than it already is which is way >grey. (neigh sayth Fay Wray!) >Try straight Dektol at a higher temperature and turn your safelights off! >This will make every pixel glow with joy! >12 ways! > >On 5/16/04 8:43 PM, "Peter Klein" <pklein@2alpha.net> wrote: > > > Hands across the sea and all that. . . > > > > http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/Victoria/20AlexDavidBowBW.htm > > > > This was a really difficult one--glaring backlight and mixed > > daylight/incandescent, in the darkest portion of Empress tea room. 1/30 at > > f/2, 50mm Summicron. Shot in color on Fuji Press 400, but the mixed light > > was just too weird, so it ended up B&W. > > > > More to come eventually. > > > > --Peter Klein > > Seattle, WA > >