Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 10/3/2005 11:17:48 A.M. Central Daylight Time, abridge@gmail.com writes: I think that, somehow, brightening it up takes away from the image - it loses context becaue the sky is so bright it might as well be daylight. Deepening the sky at this point might be a good thing? Adam Yeah, Adam, that's why I kinda like the cropped version. The problem with going darker is that you loose the man and the grain goes noisy. Thanks for looking! Sonny On 10/3/05, SonC@aol.com <SonC@aol.com> wrote: > Last week there was a power failure a couple nights after Rita, but luckily > it was only a transformer. I went out M 6 and Noctilux in hand, and > shot a > few frames. I think it was about 1/15th. The sun was down, I focused > on the > wires as I could not see the man clearly (no chance of viewfinder flare in > these conditions!) No street lights nearby, only the afterglow in the > western sky, and the flashers on the two trucks. This was the only > frame that was > steady enough to work with. The scan was done on a Nikon 5000ed > > http://www.sonc.com/f1_and_be_there2.htm Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish