Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George Lottermoser wrote: > Jonathan Borden8/13/04 >>>> This chrome was impossible to print but saved via high resolution >>>> scanning and lots of photoshop curves. >>>> >>>> http://jborden.org/etc/index.cgi/photos/paris-91.html > > Saved for what use? > The shadows look purple and lack detail. > The skin tone looks awful. > > As a memorable moment in the personal journal - perhaps saved? > > Perhaps 'saved' is too strong a description. If you see where this badly exposed chrome taken under very harsh lighting conditions (perhaps a HID streetlight, I can't recall) started from (this an optimal scan), there was zero detail in the hair and heavy shadows in the face and eyes. Here's the before and after: http://jborden.org/etc/index.cgi/photos/paris-91.html This wasn't at all intended to be a memorable moment, rather it was intended to be colorfully harsh and gritty. In any case I scanned this to for a couple of reasons: 1) to see how much shadow detail could be pulled out of an underexposed slide. 2) to test the wide gamut limits of the scanner -- the yellows are more intense than in most other slide I could easily find. So I guess that as a standalone its just a bad picture. Perhaps I was too affected by the before and after... Jonathan