Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/23

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Subject: [Leica]Hello?
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Mon May 23 17:59:58 2005

I am a great admirer of Tina's photography, Richard, but she asked for
comments - wasn't I supposed to comment? I think that combining the layers
is, in this case, a mistake because the final image is, in my opinion,
inferior to the original jpg, or what it could have easily been.

B. D.


On 5/23/05 8:22 PM, "Richard" <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote:

> Combining huge dynamic range to a "pleasant" picture can be tricky. If you
> make everything similar in light value, then you lose the contrast between
> highlight and shadow, e.g. flat.
> 
> But! I think Tina is just making a point. If she were to really make a
> combined picture, chances are she knows how to do that in Photoshop better
> than most of us...
> 
> At 05:08 PM 5/23/2005, Adam Bridge wrote:
> 
>> I'm agreeing with B. D. on the combined image, it does feel washed out and
>> flat.
>> 
>> Maybe it's the blending modes used to combine the highighted image and
>> shadow image?
>> 
>> Adam
> 
> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please
> use richard at imagecraft.com)
> 
> 
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