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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Robert Stevens' PAW Wk 2
From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 10:38:09 -0400
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Eric:

I am pretty new to scanning B&W negatives, so you will have to give me a 
little leeway while I figure it out.  I had though until your comment that 
the week 2 alternate was my best scan yet wehn it comes to tonality and 
contrast.

I think the comment was on my week two alternate.

http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/PAW2001/wk2alt.htm

I find a lot of the PAW pictures are just too high in contrast.  Some of 
the participants are making the contrast too high just to achieve a level 
of black they prefer. In the process, they blow out the detail in the 
highlights. In the picture above, Gordon was wearing a blue and red rugby 
shirt.  If I made it more contrasty, the blue parts of the shirt would have 
gone black.  The full range of tones are in the picture from the black of 
his eyes to the white in the collar of his shirt.

B&W is just like colour film; some people like the surreal saturation of 
Velvia, others like the realistic saturation of Kodachrome.  I tend to like 
the middle ground, with my favorite being Provia 100f these days.  This is 
probably reflected in my B&W tonality as well.

BTW, for the main image, I actually brought the contrast and brightness up 
a bit because I though it may be more in the style of the other PAW 
posters.  It also fit the atmoshpere of the kitchen better.

http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/PAW2001/wk2.htm

Regards,

Robert

At 04:39 AM 1/15/2002 -0600, Eric wrote:
> >The eyes are black on my monitor.  I may just not have thing set to the
> >average monitor.
>
>Pull up a histogram in your favorite image editing program and go by that
>rather than by what your monitor shows ya.  I've been struggling with this
>same issue myself lately.  I think I've finally got it figured out thanks to
>a very patient friend.  :)
>
>
>Eric
>--


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