Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Helen has been looking through the images and playing with the contrast, both generally and locally, and in general pushed it up a bit after your comments. To be honest, she is really just learning what LR can do and how it can do it, and I'm trying not to put too much of my aesthetic on her images, so its great to have the input from someone else. Cheers Alastair > I pulled one off the site and played with it in PS, and in Digital Photo > Pro. It's very tight as to where one wants to be contrast wise. I guess it > comes down to personal preference. > S.d. > > On Apr 3, 2010, at 9:38 PM, afirkin at afirkin.com wrote: > >> I'm always careful not to make my images too contrasty. The temptation >> to >> push the contrast slider up and up is always there. We tried to keep the >> contrast levels fairly constant across the series, but we will re-look >> at >> them with this comment in mind. Perhaps they would be better. >> >> Thanks for this >> >> Alastair and Helen >> >>> Is this the contrast level you're comfortable with? It's a bit flat, in >>> my >>> opinion. >>> Wonderful compositions! >>> S.d. >>> >>> >>> On Apr 3, 2010, at 8:17 PM, afirkin at afirkin.com wrote: >>> >>>> Second set of people shots by Helen in b/w from Cuba starting here: >>>> >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/Cuba+black+and+white/HelenB-W-11.jpg.html >>>> >>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/Cuba+black+and+white/HelenB-W-11.jpg.html> >>>> >>>> http://tinyurl.com/ya7cpfy >>>> >>>> enjoy >>>> >>>> Alastair >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >