[Leica] Bad Exposure or Something Else?

[jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)]

May God have mercy on my immortal soul. Is this more what you had in 
mind?

http://gallery.leica-users.org/album63/another_man_s_image

John Collier

On Dec 5, 2004, at 5:50 PM, Richard S. Taylor wrote:

> As I turned onto Memorial Drive in Cambridge last week the sycamores 
> along the drive were glowing white-gold in the mid-afternoon sunlight. 
>  I quickly parked and took pictures.  The results were disappointing 
> to say the least.  I've posted one example here:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/PICKS/21_0021>
>
> Photographic qualities of the picture aside, I wonder if any of you 
> might have any thoughts on what I might have done to improve the 
> rendition of the glowing trees that I saw with my eyes.  There seems 
> to be an exposure issue here since the highlights look blown out but 
> would it have been better on a slower film, or is there a scanning 
> problem, or something else?
>
> This photo isn't even close to the image I had in my head. 
> Manipulation in Photoshop to darken the image overall helps but isn't 
> really the solution.  The posted picture is unmanipulated and 
> uncropped.