Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:59 PM 3/4/2002 +0100, Nathan Wajsman wrote: >Doug, > >Thanks for your comments, and I think you are right. I did increase the >brightness on the picture of my daughter in Photoshop Nathan: You are supposed to put more brightness in the picture at the time of exposure ;-) Dark slides, are impossible to scan and correct. Regards, Robert >but obviously I should have done some more fine-tuning. I chose it as the >main pic because...well, because she is my little girl... > >Nathan > >Douglas Herr wrote: > > > > > > > http://www.wajsman.com/2002_9.jpg > > > > > > The alternate is a landscape with a human element: > > > > > > http://www.wajsman.com/2002_9alt1.jpg > > > > > > Both shots taken with Leica M6, 50mm Summilux, on Kodachrome 64. > > > > > > > Nathan, I much prefer the alternate. Nothing against your daughter but > there's not enough light on her face IMHO. In the alternate the people > are small enough in the picture that they're more puctuation in the > photo, rather than the main point of interest, so they can go dark > without making me want to see them better. In your main photo your > daughter is clearly the center of interest with the mountains as a > backdrop so the light on her needs to be brighter. > > > > > > -- > > > > Doug Herr > > Birdman of Sacramento > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > >-- >Nathan Wajsman >Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > >e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch > >Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm >General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm > > >-- >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