Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/29
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on 29/2/00 3:40 pm, Jeremy Kime at jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk wrote:
> I think 15 has great potential though on a monitor like mine it's probably
> not at it's best. Am I alone in seeing only a range of 8 or 16 shades? The
> contrast between the light and the shade, the blacks and the other blacks,
> and the whites is fascinating. It makes you question what is colour (sic.)
> all about.
It's a bastard to scan/print, that one. One part of the subject is in
violent sunlight, the other in total shadow. In fact, there are a lot of
tones in the lit black guy, but they're compressed by the necessity to show
some texture in the deep shadow. I'm still playing around with this, but
strangely, if you dick around to get more tones, it starts to look very
unnatural. I sort of like the crudity, in the end.
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