[Leica] 3 odd B&W shots from Long Beach

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Hmmmm - there was a BIT of unsharp mask done when they were reduced
for the web but it hardly showed to my eye - which is about how I do
it. What are you seeing that leads you to think that? I know the
night-time image has virtually no sharpening at all except for the
last bit which would be about 78 and radius of .8 in Photoshop.

Thanks for your input - I'll look at the workflow and see if I did
something odd.

Adam

On 3/7/06, bruce <bruce@ralgo.nl> wrote:
> To me, they all have excessive unsharp mask, Adam. Please comment.
>
> Otherwise a great series of well composed images. Thanks.
>
> B.
>
> On 7-mrt-2006, at 8:07, Adam Bridge wrote:
>
> > This is a very strange posting because the images aren't anything
> > special and yet I like different things about all three of them - all
> > related to the use of black and white film, in particular Tri X.
> >
> > This image was shot from our hotel home across the hotel parking
> > structure to this building across the street. The old-time fire escape
> > and the textures of the brick really spoke to me. Printed large
> > there's a huge amount of detail in this image that the small version
> > that you see only hints at. It was shot at 1/1000th of a second, I'm
> > sure.
> >
> > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/02/23/TX400-002-R1.jpg>
> >
> > The inside of the Long Beach Convention Center spoke to me - the
> > receding arches of the ceiling, so bright, all these wonderful
> > gradations. This catches that ceiling.
> >
> > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/02/23/TX400-004-R1.jpg>
> >
> > I've always wanted an evening shot. As we were crossing Ocean Ave to
> > the hotel from the convention center the sky was still luminous and
> > there was this illuminated bank building across the street so I
> > snapped a couple of images. This was probably about 1/30th of a
> > second.
> >
> > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2006/02/23/TX400-030-R1.jpg>
> >
> > All the images are on Tri X at 400, processed in XTOL 1:3 at 68
> > degrees with my own agitation scheme of 30 seconds continuous, 4
> > minutes every 30 seconds, 4 minutes ever minute and 4 minutes every 2
> > minutes. Maybe it makes a difference, maybe it doesn't, but I like the
> > look of the negative I get from it.
> >
> > Shot with M6TTL and either the 50mm f2 or the 35mm f2.
> >
> > Your comments are invited and welcome. Maybe these speak to you, maybe
> > they don't. I was uncertain about whether to post them but figured -
> > ah heck - what's a few snapshots amongst friends and I might learn
> > something.
> >
> > Adam Bridge
> >
> >
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