[Leica] Bride by window light

[pklein at 2alpha.net (Peter Klein)]

Last week, I was in New York/New Jersey for my cousin's wedding.  After the 
official photographer did his thing with his F3 and big strobe, I'd asked 
the bride to stand by the window.  I love window light.

http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/JonAntionWedding/2-34Antionette.htm

M6TTL, 50/1.5 Nokton, Kodak's newest Portra B&W 400 C-41 film, light from 
the window to the bride's left.  Exposure?  I haven't the faintest idea.  I 
vaguely remember putting the metering circle 1/3 on the dress and 2/3 on 
the bride's skin, telling her how gorgeous she was, and squeezing off two 
shots.

I shot nine rolls of film. I plan on sending a CD to family members, and I 
am NOT gonna scan that many negatives, so I used Costco's "develop and burn 
to CD" service.  The good news is that the CD scans are about 2000 x 3000 
pixels, and are fine for casual email and Web.  Like machine prints, they 
are too high-contrast, but a tweak here and there make them fine for 
family's on-screen consumption. The bad news is that Costco scratched the 
negatives, fortunately after the scanning and printing were done.  Aargh.

I rescanned the above myself, and spent a lot of time with the clone tool 
getting the scratches out. My Canon FS4000's digital FARE does fine with 
dust spots, but just smears scratches.

--Peter Klein
Seattle, WA