[Leica] Don't be shy: sink the boots ;-)

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson)]

And expose to the right in the first place. I don't understand Mark's
comment. You want to fill that histogram and use as much of those 81/2 stops
of Leica goodness as you can!
Push that camera histogram to just clipped. Its only a rough guide for a
jpeg anyway. Get all of the highlight tones you can, clipped ain't
necessarily clipped with Raw. 
Far better to be compressing highlight values than stretching shadows.
And bracket of course. 


Cheers
Geoff
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Pick up your camera and make the best photo you can.

-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: [Leica] Don't be shy: sink the boots ;-)

Alastair,
If shot RAW, try to develop for the highlights only; decrease contrast down
to near zero, and adjust the highlights to the highest acceptable limit,
then use the black slider to restore tones - just my two cents.
If using LR, more can be done with mid-range tones adjustment I guess.
I'd be curious to see the result if you have time to try this.
Phx

Alastair Firkin wrote:

>Thanks Mark: I think its an image I wanted to work that doesn't. That's 
>great feed back for me. I'll look at with less "white" but it may be a 
>gonna ;-)
>
>Thanks again
>
>Alastair
>
>--- mark@rabinergroup.com wrote:
>
>From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
>To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Don't be shy: sink the boots ;-)
>Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:48:31 -0500
>
>Snow is hard to shoot. You don't want to gray it down too much but 
>you've got zero detail in your highlights. Its all blown out.
>Do NOT take that histogram and move it to the right from the right edge!
>You need that stuff over there.
>Its the snow!
>
>
>Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>  
>
>>From: Alastair Firkin <afirkin@afirkin.com>
>>Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 16:13:56 -0800
>>To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>Subject: [Leica] Don't be shy: sink the boots ;-)
>>
>>My landscapes have been getting a few nice comments, but this one did not:
>>
>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alastair/album184/2008/IceScape-5.jpg
>>.html
>>
>>and I thought it might be a "dodgy" one, so please don't hold back. 
>>Why doesn't it work? Is it just too messy and confusing? Sink the 
>>boots, I'm planning to be more critical this year with my own and 
>>others work, as I think we all learn more that way.
>>
>>Cheers and Happy new year
>>
>>Alastair