Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, As always I enjoyed your monologe. I think that one of the reasons the images are closer to perfect the first time through is the miracle of PS. Run the curser across the screen and you can see your density range. You can do the same for color and know that your whites are really pink or gray: corrections are readily seen. This is a far cry from when I was doing Cibachromes in the 70's. Life is better today. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 8/21/05, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > On 8/21/05 12:35 PM, "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net> typed: > > > On Aug 21, 2005, at 9:23 AM, Walt Johnson wrote: > >> B.D., > >> > >> . I have a lot of respect for your opinion and am always flattered > >> when you comment nicely on my photographs. > > > > this was so well and appropriately said by Walt...said better than I > > could say it. > > > >> Walt > >> > >> p.s. I'm curious if there is even such a thing as correct color. I > >> pay considerably more attention to light quality than color > >> temperature. The bottom line is the image and what it communicates. > > > > amen > > > > Steve > > > > > What is "light quality"? > > In the twenty odd years I spent much time color balancing standing next to > and getting advise from professional custom color printers at the > correcting > table with the special corrected florescent lights built into the top and > all the color balancing swatches laying around it was never expressed to me > "now when you think a print is too magenta Mark, before you start dialing