[Leica] IMG: Brunch, beach, cute kid, revised

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

Peter, no argument on the performance of your 35 on the M8. Don't apologise 
for sharpness/resolution.

Re the stethoscope, while I consider colour as more normal for casual fun 
pics of cute kids, this one just doesn't appeal as much as
the BW, very likely due to the difficult lighting that you mentioned. I just 
don't care for how the little darling's face and hair
have been rendered. I personally don't see a problem with the brightness of 
the stethoscope, that's how kid's stuff is.
I think that the colour works much better in the second.

Of course this is entirely just another viewer's opinion.

Cheers
Hoppy 



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Peter Klein
Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2007 16:49
To: lug@leica-users.org; leica@freelists.org
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Brunch, beach, cute kid, revised

Due to a sudden epiphany about color balancing in crazy mixed lighting, I'm 
going to ask the "B&W or color" question again on two of 'em:

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1000680MontStethBW-w.jpg.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1000680MontSteth-w.jpg.html>

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1000684MontKatEyeBW-w.jpg.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1000684MontKatEye-w.jpg.html>

For the record, I prefer B&W on the "eye exam" picture (2nd pair).  As for 
the portrait with pink "stethoscope" (first pair) I like 'em both equally, 
for different reasons.

My, oh my the 35/1.4 ASPH and M8 is a killer combination:
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/album170/L1000684Eye1to1.jpg.html>
(1:1 crop of the above, which was taken at f/2 and ISO 320, no sharpening 
beyond the default in Capture One)

I realize sharpness is a bourgeois concept, but 'tis nice to have sometimes.

--Peter 


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