Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Bob. Of course colour is entirely subjective and 'accurate' is not necessarily the most pleasing either. You have some long shadows, I guess its late afternoon??? You wouldn't wan't to correct that out anyway. FWIW as presented this looks to be a little towards cyan to my eyes. I played with it setting WB by sampling off some 'whites' in your shot and it shifts very little.. I'll play forensic software guy and deduce you set the WB that way??? Your 'whites' are warm though (tht afternoon light????) and that would shift everything bluewards if they were taken as neutral. I don't think you have gone too far on any processing by any means. On the vignette I would think it is the natural consequence of the big wide angle It's a really good shot! Just looking at a couple of recent ones of mine, this one has some similar elements and looks to lean slightly blue too! http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/m/Mlb-31.jpg.html 2009/9/26 Robert D. Baron <rbaron at concentric.net> > The colors are pretty accurate (at least insofar as I can tell) > because it was shot in those glorious few minutes before the sun > dipped below the horizon. You can see this by looking at the shadows > on the ground. I increased the brilliance and saturation a small bit > in Lightroom but not at all so as to make it unrecognizable from the > original scene. > > The overall vignetting and left side darkening are mainly due to using > some developing preset adjustments during post processing in > Lightroom. Its the sort of thing I would have done in the darkroom to > add emphasis to the scene and that I often do in LR. I hope my hand > was not too heavy here but I guess that is a matter of personal taste. > The camera is an M8 (newly upgraded shutter) with a new m-mount 15mm > Voigtlander attached. > > Thanks for commenting, I appreciate it. > > --Bob > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Robert D. Baron <rbaron at concentric.net> > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 10:05:12 PM > > Subject: [Leica] It's State Fair Time Again > > > > http://www.bobbaron.com/W_L1007070Whee.jpg > > > > c&c welcome, of course. > > > > --Bob > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Cheers Geoff The new LEICA M9 Passion for perfect pictures. http://www.m.leica-camera.com http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman