[Leica] Dr Ted's assignment: overexposed whites?

[philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)]

None of the three would/should be white in real life - but #1 i.e. the  
lighter one is more attractive on my monitor if this was what you were  
asking :-)

Hope this helps
Philippe

Le 9 oct. 13 ? 20:10, Duane Birkey a ?crit :

> On my monitor as well as my Ipad.....   I did not think that Sue's  
> or Leo's (or for that matter my image) was blown out...    My  
> histogram certainly did not look that way...   But...  color and  
> exposure is perceptual...  and there are a lot of variables....
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> Either way, it obviously looked overexposed on Ted's display...    
> And since the cardinal sin of photography is overexposed slides and  
> overexposed digital files, underexposed negs... and blown out whites  
> in prints...   I can understand his comments....    But those are  
> sins that I never really commit...   I always bracket under exposure  
> shots on just about everything where I can...   Otherwise I tend to  
> shoot things about ? stop under in raw and fix it later...    None  
> of these versions were pushed down to make them darker....   I'm not  
> real fond of gray whites either though...
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> Note:  This was shot at sunrise... so the lighting is also a bit  
> different than what you would expect....
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> Anyhow...  here are three versions....   One should look better on  
> your monitor than the others...    :  )
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dbirkey/DR_Ted/Duane_Birkey_201311559_lg.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dbirkey/DR_Ted/Duane_Birkey_201311559_lg2.jpg.html
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/dbirkey/DR_Ted/Duane_Birkey_201311559_lg3.jpg.html
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> Duane
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