Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/22

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Learning from Bokeh and Histogram Discussions
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Thu Jan 22 11:24:33 2009
References: <DA6D9325999B4C8895290D822D3DC1D3@jimnichols>

Jim you have partly recovered some of the white fur which is an improvement
for sure. Bright sunlit white fur with shadows around is a tough subject.
The crop works and you get rid of some of the noisy shadows too. The digital
darkroom is a cool place to spend some time.

2009/1/23 Jim Nichols <jhnichols@lighttube.net>

> I have taken to heart the discussions or bokeh and positioning of the
> exposure histogram that have appeared on the LUG this past week, and 
> decided
> to see if I could improve on a RAW image that I had post-processed and
> posted recently. While I could not go back and re-expose the image that
> included a wide range of shadow and highlight, I found that I could make
> improvements in the way I handled the RAW image. The original and reworked
> images are linked below.
>
> Original image
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Backyard+Visitor.tif.html
>
> Reworked image
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Reworked+Visitor.tif.html
>
> I like the bokeh of the  Takumar 50/1.4
>
> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
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-- 
Cheers
Geoff
Life's too short for slow zooms

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