[Leica] Dunes Redux

[Bob Adler]

I like the black blacks too. Much more dramatic and graphical as you say. 

Adam's loved his black blacks! Though he espoused exposing BW for the shadows and then use zone exposure/processing to expand or reduce highlights, many of his prints had pure blacks. My guess is he had the detail in his negatives and chose to not print them or exposed for where he wanted black detail to end. More likely, like us, he tried to capture as much information as possible and then used printing to e press his vision. 

But more detail in the sand and black as night blacks seems to be the middle of the two done so far and preferable to me. 

Thank you all so much for helping me work through this. REALLY appreciated. 
Bob

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> On Nov 13, 2014, at 2:08 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> +1!
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:15 PM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>
> wrote:
> 
>> The first one is more graphic and the second one just photographic ;-)
>> 
>> My vote goes to #1 as a result even if #2 demonstrates the sensor has
>> spare power to deliver ;-)
>> 
>> Perhaps #1 with slightly more details in the highlights might be another
>> way to explore.
>> 
>> Amitiés
>> Philippe
>> 
>> Le 13 nov. 14 à 17:41, Howard Ritter a écrit :
>> 
>> 
>> For my tastes, the original without hesitation. The foreground ripples
>>> add a lot of textural visual interest and the inky blackness of the shadows
>>> is more important than the detail that can be teased out with
>>> post-processing.
>>> 
>>> YMMV. De gustibus and all that.
>>> 
>>> —howard
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 13, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Definitely the revised one for me.  Very nice.
>>>> 
>>>> Ken
>>>> 
>>>>> On 11/12/2014 9:53 PM, Robert Adler wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Some suggestions were made to the first image of the Oceano Dunes that
>>>>> included:
>>>>> 1.  Lighten the dune shadows to show some detail.
>>>>> 2.  Crop out some of the foreground.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So I did this and the result is here:
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rgacpa_HI/20141103-
>>>>> L1002368+as+Smart+Object.jpg.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here is the original image before the suggestions.
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rgacpa_HI/20141103-
>>>>> L1002368-Edit.jpg.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please look at each large. Though I know which one I prefer (limited to
>>>>> only these two to pick from) I'd really appreciate hearing your
>>>>> opinions.
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> Bob
>>>> 
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