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

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Subject: [Leica]Hello?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon May 23 20:15:57 2005

> 
> I agree that the final image is too flat.  My point is that I still have
> the untouched RAW files and can redo this as many times as I want without
> losing anything in the RAW.  You can't do that with Jpegs or Tiffs.  I
> spent about 10 minutes doing the layers.  One of these days I'll go back
> and spend half an hour and get it to look the way I want it to.  Then I'll
> save a Tiff but I won't discard the RAW.  I would not spend any time
> working on a jpeg.  It's just not worth it.
> 
> Tina
> 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
I think all Tina would have to do on that last image that she didn't quite
have time to with everything else and I find this illustration stupendously
valuable is just go in there with the curves and S it up a bit.
Make a bit of an S out of it.
Get that middle part of the S more vertical. Which is as I understand it
"increase gamma".
That's what I would do at least.
Sometimes I'm a curves guy other times a levels. To me this is a job for
command m curves mode. A slight 7 second tweak.


Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/





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