[Leica] I NEED YOUR EXPERTISE
Gerry Walden
gerry.walden at icloud.com
Sun Jul 26 22:38:30 PDT 2015
Roger
My favourite has to be the colour close-up.
Gerry
On 26 Jul 2015, at 22:21, Roger Rubin <vroger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All: Everything works beautifully...but I want to know why. I recently
> started to use Lightroom, mainly because since I am now shooting in black
> and white almost exclusively, I
>
> want to retain my color information by shooting* Raw plus JPEG*. In any
> event I took the enclosed full length b/w image at the NYC Puerto Rican Day
> Parade.
>
> PR PARADE GIRL - v-images
> <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4231526640&k=w>
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> [image: image]
> <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4231526640&k=w>
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> PR PARADE GIRL - v-images
> <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4231526640&k=w>
> Victor Roger-Born in London, UK- can be reached at lensmanwriter at outlook.com
> .
> View on v-images.smugmug.com
> <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4231526640&k=w>
> Preview by Yahoo
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> The image was made with a Leica Typ 109 using RAW + JPEG. The base image
> size before post-processing was 24X14 inches (Photo Shop Elements)- micro
> 4/3.-3.81 MB in size.
>
>
> When put the image through Lightroom the image color was revealed and I
> decided to see what Micro 4/3 (16 mp effective 12mp) would allow me to do.
>
> I cropped the image severely, put the image through post processing using 2
> of my regular post processing programs which I use for portraits, and had a
> resulting tiny "image sized" image
>
> perhaps no more than 4X5..
>
> *I then went through my tedious but normal **routine of re-sizing at 10
> percent at a time until the image was sized: 25X21 inches. * I was pleased
> with the resulting 8.5 X11 print.
>
> PR PARADE GIRL - v-images
> <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4229941907&k=cZpFdNz&lb=1&s=X2>
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> [image: image]
> <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4229941907&k=cZpFdNz&lb=1&s=X2>
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> PR PARADE GIRL - v-images
> <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4229941907&k=cZpFdNz&lb=1&s=X2>
> Victor Roger-Born in London, UK- can be reached at lensmanwriter at outlook.com
> .
> View on v-images.smugmug.com
> <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4229941907&k=cZpFdNz&lb=1&s=X2>
> Preview by Yahoo
>
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> When looking at the "properties" ,however, the image comes in at* 608KB*.
> What I want to know is:
>
> How does the size of 608KB affect the blowing up of the image? 1. The
> image can clearly be blown up to much larger than 8.5X11 (I've done this
> with 4mp images using this system-
>
> gone to 20X24 without loss of quality) and
>
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> 2. How is this possible with an image of only 608 KB??? This question been
> bugging me for years.
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> I don't usually crop so severely, but I may in the future.
>
>
> Many thanks for your time- Roger
>
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