Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In message <B85B34CD.7504%Mail@SlideOne.com>, John Straus writes: >Hi Arne, > >I like the tone of his face and hands lit from the candle. I'd like to see >it cropped as a square starting at the candles and including some of the >chair. The blacks seem too black as well, no sweater detail. This could be >that the image has no saved profile. I started to assign a gray gamma 2.2 to >my B&W images for the web and they seem to look good while I'm working on >them and on the web. If I don't tag them the mids and blacks drop. > John, I agree with you on both issues. I generally find it hard to show good shadow detail (not scanner noise in dark areas) in b/w images. I adjusted the picture to conceal it. On traditional wet prints I expect much better results. >I do like the tone of the XP2 as well the other shots show it off nicely. >I'm sure you sis would kill you for posting #3 :) I like the last shot #8 of >the fill flash a lot! Sis? Wife!!! - -- Arne - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html