[Leica] New photos

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)]

Mark,

Thanks, I use PSE and am not the greatest with manipulating the controls for 
b&w, but I will see what I can do.  I have not yet made the switch to LR, 
and am still looking at it and Aperture 3, as PSE is not the easiest to work 
with at times.  I will go back and see what I can do to improve these as you 
suggested.

Cheers,
Gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Pope" <mark at whitedogs.co.uk>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 2:17:36 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [Leica] New photos

Gene,

they work well as B&W pictures.  I feel they need a bit more of tweak 
though.  They could do with being brighter to bring out the snow and 
have a touch more contrast.  If you are using Lightroom, playing around 
with the curve can make a big difference - an gentle 'S' shape can work 
wonders - pull the shadow area of the curve down a bit and lift the 
highlight area. It's the equivalent of altering the paper grade used.  A 
steeper curve is like a harder grade.

It's also worth playing with the colour sliders to emphasise certain 
portions of the the picture.  They both have quite a bit if potential 
and a few minutes in Lightroom (or equivalent) will make a massive 
difference to the output.

Best wishes


Mark



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grduprey at mchsi.com wrote:
> Oliver, thanks for the comment.
> 
> Gene
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oliver Bryk" <oliverbryk at comcast.net>
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 10:29:56 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [Leica] New photos
> 
> Gene showed:
> 
> "Ok, here as promised are the edited and converted to B&W barn images.
> Enjoy:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/L1030066bw.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/L1030056bw.jpg.html 
> 
> c&c encouraged.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gene"
> 
> I prefer the b&w versions. They work really well. 
> Thanks for taking the trouble to do this,
> Oliver
> 
> 
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