Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adam, I like to get a good wide range of tones. I then fine tune the image for my paper. Get it close to what you want, but leave them a little elbow room (a little flat). It's easier for them to add contrast than to reduce it. They have almost as much interest in it looking good in print as you do. The whole process gets "personality" from all sorts of quarters (how many beers the pressman had, , and no one knows how to adapt to it better than the production people there. Ric Carter http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies On May 10, 2006, at 9:22 PM, Adam Bridge wrote: > ahhhhhhh - glad i asked then! Yes it's going to them digitally - my > wife shot it on her D30 - i've taken it from color to B&W. It's going > to be printed about 6x5" as a part of a political ad. It's a group of > local notables. > > ab > > On 5/10/06, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: >> >> > Can any of you give me some (good?) advice for readying images for >> > newspaper printing? >> >> Back when I used to do this, it was simple: make a nice high- >> contrast print that has white whites and black blacks. I'm sure >> they want it digitally nowadays, but the principle is the same. >> Low contrast looks very bad in a newspaper photo. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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