Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, The Silverfast manual is long but then it is German. It really is not hard; you should have the traditional controls in the upper part of the tools. You have your histogram for levels and a curve dialogue that you can grab and move up and down just like in LR. I would try for one scan that the only thing not black are the highlights on her face and of course the candles. On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote: > At 12:19 PM 8/31/2008, you wrote: > >> Tina,Great shot. I'm with Ted; the upper right and lower left need to be >> paper black. With the pushing the highlights are probably blown put try a >> HDR with two scans to pull out any information at the edge of white. What >> I >> think you are looking for is what W Eugene Smith did with his Haitian >> insane >> asylum image; almost all black except for the important details: her face >> and torso and the tortillas. >> > > Thanks, Don. I hadn't thought about doing two scans but I'll certainly try > that. The manual for the Silverfast software is almost 500 pages long and > looks extremely complicated, but if I can pull anything more out of these > old negatives, it will be worth learning how. > > > Tina > > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com