Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John, You are a bolder man than I am John. I started with an almost identical result with a little levels work in PS. I had most of the sky darkened with some quick mask when I decided I was going over the deep end. Then I started imagining some MC yellow arches at the end of the street and knew that I should stop. What I really decided was that the image needed to be taken some distance to the left of the taken position for a better use of the sun. Right about then I realized that I should put film in my camera and just take my own pictures. But then again, he did ask for comments... Don dorysrus@mindspring.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of John Collier Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 10:32 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Bad Exposure or Something Else? 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. _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information