Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/29

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Subject: [Leica] Film/digital wars
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Fri Apr 29 06:22:36 2005

There wasn't any made, sorry.


> From: MIKIRO <miki@arbos.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:49:37 +0900
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Film/digital wars
> 
> Now she is close to me. A real woman. ;-)
> I would love to see the conventionally enlarged print.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> MIKIRO
> 
> Philippe Orlent wrote:
>> Basically the image was first "cut" into different pieces after deciding
>> what had to be done: for each correction a different piece.
>> Almost no sharpening to this one, unless on some hairstrings. Contrasts 
>> are
>> pushed a bit in the dark zones. Some work on the skin: slight blurring in
>> overlay. Modifying lights in + whites of the eyes.
>> Some pushing of the already blurred zones. Beauty retouche (removing 
>> spots,
>> work on lips, etc.). In the end, noise (about .25%) is added to unify
>> everything. There's no rule about uniform or gaussian, monochromatic or 
>> not.
>> Just what works best for that particular job. Some image editors produce
>> their own grain layers even. Background blurred a bit.
>> This one was shot on Tmax 100 and I was surprised of the beauty of its 
>> grain
>> when grossly enlarged. Development was in HC110, but not in a lab: done by
>> the photographer himself.
>> 
>> Just for the fun of it I added a scan of the contact print, too:
>> 
>> http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/pIlse_p3-3.jpg
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Philippe
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: MIKIRO <miki@arbos.net>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:36:13 +0900
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Film/digital wars
>>> 
>>> Hi, Philippe.
>>> 
>>> On my display, the image appears as if it has been sharpened,
>>> particularly at magnifications of more than 100%. Is it the case? It
>>> looks sharp but lacks liveliness of the skin texture, or a feeling that
>>> the model is embarrassingly close to you. ;-) If I were the client, I
>>> would ask some modifications. Some photographers intentionally add
>>> "noise" to make digital images look more true to life. Do you do similar
>>> tricks?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> MIKIRO
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Philippe Orlent wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> This is one of the 4 portraits. I will let you decide for yourself if 
>>>> it's
>>>> too harsh or not (CAUTION: BIG file):
>>>> 
>>>> http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Ilse_final.jpg
>>> 
>>> 
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