[Leica] Readying images for the newspaper

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

Thanks Ric,

I've never tried to make an image for this usage and I don't have a
clue about how it works so your advice is important.

It's all a mystery to me.

Adam

On 5/10/06, Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Adam,
>
> I like to get a good wide range of tones. I then fine tune the image
> for my paper.
>
> Get it close to what you want, but leave them a little elbow room (a
> little flat). It's easier for them to add contrast than to reduce it.
>
> They have almost as much interest in it looking good in print as you do.
>
> The whole process gets "personality" from all sorts of quarters (how
> many beers the pressman had, , and no one knows how to adapt to it
> better than the production people there.
>
> Ric Carter
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies
>
>
> On May 10, 2006, at 9:22 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:
>
> > 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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