Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/14

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Subject: [Leica] Photo: The Old Time Fiddlers of Black Canyon
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sun May 14 21:53:37 2006
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Really lovely portrait, Adam. I suspect the bkgrnd weirdness has to do with 
resizing for the gallery. But the backgrnd itself looks fine to me.


...... Original Message .......
On Sun, 14 May 2006 23:30:00 -0400 Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote:
>Adam--
>
>That's a REAL fine portrait that deserves a better background.
>
>PhotoShop time!
>
>Ric Carter
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies
>
>On May 14, 2006, at 10:26 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:
>
>> We're in Arizona this weekend, closing the house in Black Canyon. It's
>> hot, 100 or so, hardly counts as hot in Arizona where hot begins about
>> 115.
>>
>> Here in Black Canyon there's a monthly meeting of "fiddlers" who
>> invite the public to come and listen as they play their mix of blue
>> grass and traditional American tunes.
>>
>> Here's one of the players and his wife. By chance they knew my wife's
>> parents from the time when they lived here.
>>
>> It was shot at 3200 with the 1Ds MKII and the 24-70 f2.8L, the
>> conversion to B&W done with Convert to Black and White Pro lit by a
>> combination of window light and fluorescent fixtures.
>>
>> <http://www.idea-processing.com/Images/_L3U1240-bw.jpg>
>>
>> Comments most welcome.
>>
>> I'll have a few more images to share from what I shot but this was the
>> most personal and the one I connected with most deeply. The others are
>> just "art".
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] Photo: The Old Time Fiddlers of Black Canyon)
Message from ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter) ([Leica] Photo: The Old Time Fiddlers of Black Canyon)