Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Dec 31, 2007, at 4:18 AM, Mark Pope wrote: > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 14:22 -0700, Steve Barbour wrote: >> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW2007/sol.jpg.html> >> M8 Zeiss Planar 50mm/2 >> happy new year... >> our children are the future... >> best,Steve >> as others have said, it's a lovely, original, engaging portrait. >> What > lets it down for me is there's hardly any difference in the skin tones > and the grey of the inflatable thingummybob. Is it worth playing > around > with the channel mix to see if the skin tones could be lightened and > the > greys in the thingummybob darkened? This, plus a touch more contrast > and > brigtness, may lift it to another level, as you effectively have a > natural vignette to emphasise Soleil's face. I couldn't do much here with Soleil, but here is her brother... :-) http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW2007/lukcol.jpg.html Steve