Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:57 PM 2/2/2005, you wrote: >Bravo, Tina! You really stirred the pot with those two mosque >shots. Kodachrome? Yes, both are Kodachrome. >Seriously. . . which one is "correct?" I have no idea. The first looks >like it's lit only with blue sky behind the camera; the second looks like >early morning or late afternoon light. I'll guess that the second is >closer to what we would see in normal daylight, but warmer. I'm basing >this on the color of the bricks, which is the only frame of reference I >have in the shot. Then again, there is a mosque in Samerkand, Uzbekistan >that looks like the bluer picture (it was shown in a Leica Photographie >International in the last few years). In my memory this mosque is very blue, but I suspect that the second photo is closer to the true color. I have other photos of this mosque that I'll scan later. I think it looks blue in those, but my memory may be playing tricks on me. > Some of us tolerate/like wider swings from reality than others. I'm always amazed at the variations I get when I try "Auto Color" in Photoshop. Some look perfectly acceptable but not at all what I remember. The gray balance in PhotoKit gives a very neutral tone, but usually I prefer a warmer look for people. >And reality is for people who can't handle Velvia. :-) And there is a Velvia filter for Photoshop, too!! Tina Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com