[Leica] Revised BOATING PAD #12 - Version 4 of "Underway"

[mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope)]

Hi Richard,

another Mark here...

The picture looks like had it been printed conventionally, the paper 
grade is a bit too low.  Try increasing the contrast to get the shadow 
detail where you want it then adjust the brightness to sort out the 
highlights.  It might just lift it a touch more.

When I used to print conventionally, the maxim was to get the exposure 
right for the highlights and then use the paper grade to sort out the 
shadows and mid-tones...

Cheers


Mark

Richard Taylor wrote:
> Mark - I tried your suggestion of pulling down the blacks hard to try 
> and retain more detail in the whites without losing the brilliance of 
> the original.  In a few words, it didn't work.  The highlights didn't 
> gain much in the way of detail and the overall image looked sadly gray 
> even after compensating exposure and/or highlight adjustments.
> 
> So, I went for a direct hit on the highlights.  Without adjusting the 
> exposure at all, I reduced the Highlight slider in Lightroom as much as 
> it would allow, then tweaked the exposure up slightly to make the 
> overall photo more brilliant and finally, as an added touch, brought the 
> blue luminance slider down by -33 to add some detail to the sky.  This 
> time I felt no need to warm the image up at all.
> 
> Overall this retains the brilliant light I remember from that day on the 
> water and has resulted in a much improved image, IMHO.  Thanks for 
> pushing me to work on it.
> 
> Wadda' ya' think?
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2009_boating_pad/Version+4_300_4001.jpg.html
>  
> 
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/nxz58v
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dick
> 
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> Dick
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