Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, Don's 2nd picture in particular reminded me of an issue of LensWork. So I dug it up, and it's Botanicals by Victoria Ryan in LensWork Issue #52. Really lovely stuff. Lo and behold, she has quite a few of these online. These scans don't live up to the LensWork repros, but they're still lovely. http://victoriaryanphotography.com/botgallery1.html Then I noted that several of the photos on this page are good examples of the "shadow tone dominant" type of photos I was wondering about with regard to digital shooting, shadow noise and so on. Over on photo.net, I got an answer that so far seems to make sense. To make a "shadow tone dominant" photo with a digital camera, use the lowest ISO to minimize noise (duh), expose way to the right and then correct this "wrong" exposure in post processing. Ta da - minimal or no noise. But there's a BIG CATCH. This works only so long as there are no bright subjects or elements in the composition. A bright element would either (a) get blown out while moving the shadows toward the right or (b) preclude moving the entire exposure sufficiently "to the right" to get the desired noiseless shadow tonality during post processing. So in these cases (unfortunately, probably the majority of cases of these "shadow tone dominant" compositions), it's just best to use film to make these kinds of photographs. Scott Don Dory wrote: > Luis, Peter, Scott, Jim, Steve, Ric, Ted, Philippe, and even B.D. > Thank you > very much for the kind words. B.D., you can back door the LUG2 > gallery by > entering the main list, find my name and then find the sub album PAW > 2006. > Brian has found/adapted some marvelous software for this site. > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)