Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Please, let me know! Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Steve > Rowell > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 10:19 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: PAW Week 2 - Jeffery > > > Hi Jeffery, > > You can tell by my week 2 that I need to work on burn/dodge as > well. There is a method that I'm > going to try that I thought you might be interested in. Dan > Burkholder (in his book Making Digital > Negtives for contact printing) describes a process using a > separate layer that allows much nicer > burining/dodging than the tools in Photoshop. I'm sure this > process is probably online somewhere > (anybody?). > > Cheers, > Steve Rowell > > --- Jeffery Smith <jsmith45@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > When my PhotoShop skills get a bit better (they are pretty Spartan right > > now), I'm going to go back and try to work on some burning. I > was shooting > > at E.I. 400, and I have had problems with areas washing out at > that speed. > > > > It was after roll #2 that I suddenly realized that I was > shooting downward. > > Rolls 3 & 4 (the latter is still in the camera) are from a kneeling > > position. I'm hoping to get a few more images from the 2nd 2 > rolls tonight > > or tomorrow night. > > > > Thanks for the comments. They are right on target. > > > > Jeffery Smith > > New Orleans, LA > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Eric > > > Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 5:04 AM > > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > > Subject: [Leica] Re: PAW Week 2 - Jeffery > > > > > > > > > Jeffery: > > > > > > >http://www.jeffery-nola.com/PAW_2.html > > > > > > Love the expression of the little boy! > > > > > > My main complaint is loss of detail in the highlights. The white > > > pieces are > > > washing into the light squares. Take the pawn on f5, for > example. Looks > > > like a blemish on the board as much as it does a pawn. You > can see the > > > black pieces the boy has captured, but try discerning the > pieces the girl > > > has captured. I'd also burn in the out of focus white shirt > in the upper > > > right a little. It's competing for my attention. Same goes > for the white > > > papers on the table. Just make them a little darker. > > > > > > Do you have any shots where you're shooting from the kids' > level? Instead > > > of looking down at them? That might make for a more dramatic shot. > > > > > > > > > Eric > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html