Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug, Fair enough. I can only comment on what prints of yours I have. Cheers On 8/30/07, telyt@earthlink.net <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote: > > Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have Doug's prints taken with the Leicaflex, as well as the DMR. I > took > > them out this morning and looked at them in detail, and each is as good > as > > the other. > > The real distinction is not in the prints I'm willing to sell, it's in the > photos I've rejected and refuse to show anyone. When using the DMR I have > fewer technical limitations so I can crop more, produce saleable photos in > dimmer light, and work with brighness ranges beyond what film can record > well, while using faster shutter speeds. > > Prints of the American Avocet photo > > http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/recurvirostridae/amav01.html > > have detail in the brightest whites and also well into the darkest black > feathers; I cannot duplicate this with any film let alone an ISO 400 film > (this photo was made at ISO 400 in bright sunlight). With film of any > kind > if I want that much detail in a bird with both black and white plumage I'm > restricted to the softest overcast light and, typically, slow films. > > With this photo of the Sooty Grouse > > http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/phasianidae/sogr02.html > > I was able to use Provia 400F because the bird was illuminated not only > from above by sunlight filtered through trees but also from below the > horizon by sunlight reflected from a nearby patch of decomposed granite; > this made the lighting much more even than usual, and the bird doesn't > have > large areas of black or white feathers. Without either of the light > sources or if the bird had large areas of both black and white plumage > (like the Avocet) the odds would have been much greater that the photo > would have been rejected on a technical basis. With the DMR instead of > film I don't face nearly as many of those technical limits. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >