Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If there was no sharpening, I don't understand the differences around the eyes in the contact print, and the image I first looked at. The contact print looks "normal" - the first image looks like her eyelashes and lids were constructed of shards of glass. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Orlent Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 8:16 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Film/digital wars 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information