Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sonny - The darker cropped image looks better to eye too. You don't say how you lightened the image. Have you tried the Shadow/Highlight command in PS/CS to deal with this problem? That's worked wonders on some of the commercial scans I get back with my film though it tends to bring up noise, too. > >In a message dated 10/3/2005 11:17:48 A.M. Central Daylight Time, >abridge@gmail.com writes: > >I think that, somehow, brightening it up takes away from the image - >it loses context becaue the sky is so bright it might as well be >daylight. Deepening the sky at this point might be a good thing? > >Adam > > >Yeah, Adam, that's why I kinda like the cropped version. The problem with >going darker is that you loose the man and the grain goes noisy. > >Thanks for looking! > >Sonny > >On 10/3/05, SonC@aol.com <SonC@aol.com> wrote: >> Last week there was a power failure a couple nights after Rita, but >luckily >> it was only a transformer. I went out M 6 and Noctilux in hand, and >> shot >a >> few frames. I think it was about 1/15th. The sun was down, I focused >> on >the >> wires as I could not see the man clearly (no chance of viewfinder >> flare >in >> these conditions!) No street lights nearby, only the afterglow in the >> western sky, and the flashers on the two trucks. This was the only >> frame >that was >> steady enough to work with. The scan was done on a Nikon 5000ed >> > > http://www.sonc.com/f1_and_be_there2.htm > >Regards, >Sonny >http://www.sonc.com >Natchitoches, Louisiana >Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane >?galit?, libert?, crawfish > -- Regards, Dick Boston MA