Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/19
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Jim I like the Berber shot, but it looks a bit flat to me, an increase in
contrast would improve it just right.
Gene
Jim Laurel
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owner-leica-users@mejac.palo Subject: Re: [Leica] Jim Laurel's Laos and Vietnam
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02/18/2004 06:19 PM
Please respond to
leica-users
Thanks to everyone who took the time to look at the Laos and Vietnam
images. Feedback from as accomplished a group as the LUG is very
instructive. I especially appreciate when people list favorites. Some
of the favorites have surprised me. Anyway, the feedback was a big
help in whittling down the images to show at the ASMP portfolio night
coming up in a couple of weeks.
Since some have asked offline...These images were all shot on the new
Fuji Velvia 100, mostly with Leica M6s. I think 3 or 4 were done with
a Canon EOS1n. They were scanned with a Nikon LS-4000.
I'm becoming a believer in shooting color transparency film, even if
the final goal is a black and white print. You can apply b&w filters
after the fact, and adjust the RBG levels with the channel mixer before
turning the image into monochrome. From there, I made them into
quadtones, using Ken Lee's bronze profile for Photoshop. You can get
it here: http://www.kenleegallery.com/bronze.htm
I have also been playing around with making quadtones from digital
captures taken with the digital cameras. Oddly enough, I'm finding
that these seem to require a lot more manipulation than the film scans
to get the tonality right. I am especially having problems in getting
smooth tonal gradations. Take the photo of this Berber fellow, for
instance, captured in RAW format with a Canon 1Ds at ISO 200 at full
11mp resolution:
http://www.spectare.com/gallery/saw/20cw0927.jpg
If you look at the dunes in the left area of this photo, there are lots
of gentle tonal gradations. I had a really hard time getting these to
appear smooth, without a kind of "stepped" look. I tried all sorts of
things - lowering saturation and contrast during raw conversion, etc.
I'm sure there's a way, but this photo proved very challenging and took
as much time to adjust as all the Laos/Vietnam film scans combined.
Any tips from the LUG's digital experts?
- --Jim
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