Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Julian, Until recently I used a lot of Kodak T400TCN for its lovely silky-smooth look, but I found that I sometimes had to add colour. http://www.leica-gallery.net/heymanphoto/image-30521.html and it takes too long in Photoshop. Consequently, my thinking is to have the colour available in the film, but print in B&W. Then again, I have not had many requests for colour for some time. Maybe I should change back. Oooohhh, I'm so confused! I use Fuji Supeior 400 for quite a lot of my wedding candids and some portraits, but I use Fuji NPH for anything I think may need to be enlarged to 20 or 30 inches. It is just a better film and even in B&W it has a greater tonal range. Having said that, I often go out with a bag full of superior if I think that I may overshoot. The family you like so much has a mixture of NPH and Superior. I used the NPH to start on the "real shots" and then used another 3 or 4 rolls just playing. When a family spends as much time and effort in preparation for their portrait session as this one does, and is as loyal a customer as they are, I don't stop at any predetermined number of shots. They will come up with a suggestion and I will add my interpretation and we go for it. I went back to the same location last week and made notes on the different locations at various tide times. Because of the very shallow water the beach stretches out for a mile or so at low tide, http://www.leica-gallery.net/heymanphoto/image-30492.html but at half tide there is a totally different set of locations closer to the beach where I will be able to use jetties, mangroves, sea walls and boat ramps. These are the first portraits I have ever done in this area, since I live inland nearly an hour away, However I am now encouraging other clients to make the effort. (Not too successfully, I might add) If I can convince some of them to make the journey I will post the results to the same site. The tone in the images is not your imagination, I just add a little in Photoshop. B&W to me is a little cold and the warm tone adds a little interest. It got your attention, didn't it? Most of these have the the sky burned in considerably to add drama and I usually burn the base too, so that the eye will not drop out of the bottom of the picture.What all this comes down to is that I often darken the whole picture, but hold back the centre of interest. These are not hard and fast rules, I just treat each shot as it comes. Hope this helps Rob Julian Koplen wrote: > I am in love (figure of speech) with your series on the two boys and the > family. I know that the technical aspects were only one part of your > creativity, but for this novice, would you be further generous and give more > tech details. For instance, did you use B/W Fuji film or color? Is that a > slight color tone I sense in the pictures or just my monitor and eyes > playing tricks on me. Did you do selective burning in, etc? Whatever you > can share will be much appreciated. Again, my compliments. I keep > returning to the site to look at the pictures. > > Regards...............Julian > ----- Original Message ----- > > (BIG SNIP) > > > > > http://www.leica-gallery.net/heymanphoto/image-30821.html > > has a very beautiful, painterly quality; Norman Rockwell-like > > which suits the subject. > > > > In http://www.leica-gallery.net/heymanphoto/image-32409.html, > > my sensibilties suggest that if Georgie's the one on the left, > > Georgie's name should be on the left also. > > > > Thanks for sharing, especially the behind the scene tidbits in > > http://www.leica-gallery.net/heymanphoto/folder-3208.html. > > > > Photoshop is a great tool ! > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html