Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/10

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Subject: [Leica] Readying images for the newspaper
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Wed May 10 18:22:19 2006
References: <4cfa589b0605101800h4a29de0dq5abd8f51435eeb79@mail.gmail.com> <4BAC0363F97945756DC62B05@hindolveston.reid.org>
 
ahhhhhhh - glad i asked then! Yes it's going to them digitally - my
wife shot it on her D30 - i've taken it from color to B&W. It's going
to be printed about 6x5" as a part of a political ad. It's a group of
local notables.

ab

On 5/10/06, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:
>
> > Can any of you give me some (good?) advice for readying images for
> > newspaper printing?
>
> Back when I used to do this, it was simple: make a nice high-contrast 
> print that has white whites and black blacks. I'm sure they want it 
> digitally nowadays, but the principle is the same. Low contrast looks very 
> bad in a newspaper photo.
>
>
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