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Subject: [Leica] Bad Exposure or Something Else?
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon Dec 6 11:53:17 2004
References: <p06200726bdd959a809fd@[131.142.12.152]> <6030DD3E-4737-11D9-881B-0050E42E6E0B@shaw.ca> <p0620072abdda5716b5ee@[131.142.12.152]> <41B4B6AE.2020003@gmx.de>

that's splendid Douglas...


Steve

Douglas M. Sharp wrote:
> Sorry this took a while Richard, I only just installed Elements 3.0 and 
> a few plugins that I had to get used to before I got round to trying a 
> few tricks on your image.
> 
> Processing sequence as follows :
> Grey point picked from a part of the road
> a touch of Focus Magic to pick out the thinner twigs and the cars
> shadow/highlight shift in PS
> a warming filter
> a slight increase in saturation
> a touch more dark in the shadows
> 
> I've posted your original, John's version and mine in the following sub 
> gallery.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/TESTS
> 
> Let me know what you think
> regards
> Douglas
> 
> 
> 
> Richard S. Taylor wrote:
> 
>> John - Your "sinful" attempt to correct the image is certainly closer 
>> to what I saw - and thanks you and to all the others who responded 
>> with ideas and suggestions.
>>
>> What really bothers me about the photo (and about the dozen or so 
>> others I took at the same time) is the blown out highlights.  I've now 
>> looked at the negatives more carefully and the highlights are badly 
>> blown out there, too.  (Which eliminates the scanning as an issue.)  I 
>> think if the highlights weren't so badly blown it might have been 
>> possible to make something of the picture.
>>
>> So, I think what I've learned is:
>>
>> 1. ASA 400 color negative film really isn't universal. I should have 
>> used a longer-scale film, ASA 100 or so, in this situation.
>>
>> 2. Overexposure really isn't OK with color negative film (though is 
>> far more forgiving than slide film).  I've always exposed for the 
>> shadows and let the highlights take care of themselves.   That 
>> obviously doesn't always work.
>>
>> 3. Photoshop can't fix everything.
>>
>> You are forgiven.  Your good works saved you.  Go and sin no more... 
>> (unless that is, you want to try again to fix one of my miserable 
>> attempts to commit photography, in which case, sin away.)
>>
>>> May God have mercy on my immortal soul. Is this more what you had in 
>>> mind?
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album63/another_man_s_image
>>>
>>> John Collier
>>>
>>> On Dec 5, 2004, at 5:50 PM, Richard S. Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>> As I turned onto Memorial Drive in Cambridge last week the sycamores 
>>>> along the drive were glowing white-gold in the mid-afternoon 
>>>> sunlight.  I quickly parked and took pictures.  The results were 
>>>> disappointing to say the least.  I've posted one example here:
>>>>
>>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/PICKS/21_0021>
>>>>
>>>> Photographic qualities of the picture aside, I wonder if any of you 
>>>> might have any thoughts on what I might have done to improve the 
>>>> rendition of the glowing trees that I saw with my eyes.  There seems 
>>>> to be an exposure issue here since the highlights look blown out but 
>>>> would it have been better on a slower film, or is there a scanning 
>>>> problem, or something else?
>>>>
>>>> This photo isn't even close to the image I had in my head. 
>>>> Manipulation in Photoshop to darken the image overall helps but 
>>>> isn't really the solution.  The posted picture is unmanipulated and 
>>>> uncropped.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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