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Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 9 - skiing snapshots
From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 20:39:54 -0400
References: <20020304203841.31993.qmail@earthlink.net>

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
> >
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>Nathan Wajsman
>Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland
>
>e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch
>
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>General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm
>
>
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Replies: Reply from Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> (Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 9 - skiing snapshots)
Reply from "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com> (Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 9 - skiing snapshots)
In reply to: Message from "Douglas Herr" <telyt@earthlink.net> (Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 9 - skiing snapshots)