Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Roger My favourite has to be the colour close-up. Gerry On 26 Jul 2015, at 22:21, Roger Rubin <vroger at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All: Everything works beautifully...but I want to know why. I recently > started to use Lightroom, mainly because since I am now shooting in black > and white almost exclusively, I > > want to retain my color information by shooting* Raw plus JPEG*. In any > event I took the enclosed full length b/w image at the NYC Puerto Rican Day > Parade. > > PR PARADE GIRL - v-images > <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4231526640&k=w> > > > [image: image] > <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4231526640&k=w> > > > > > > PR PARADE GIRL - v-images > <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4231526640&k=w> > Victor Roger-Born in London, UK- can be reached at lensmanwriter at > outlook.com > . > View on v-images.smugmug.com > <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4231526640&k=w> > Preview by Yahoo > > > The image was made with a Leica Typ 109 using RAW + JPEG. The base image > size before post-processing was 24X14 inches (Photo Shop Elements)- micro > 4/3.-3.81 MB in size. > > > When put the image through Lightroom the image color was revealed and I > decided to see what Micro 4/3 (16 mp effective 12mp) would allow me to do. > > I cropped the image severely, put the image through post processing using 2 > of my regular post processing programs which I use for portraits, and had a > resulting tiny "image sized" image > > perhaps no more than 4X5.. > > *I then went through my tedious but normal **routine of re-sizing at 10 > percent at a time until the image was sized: 25X21 inches. * I was pleased > with the resulting 8.5 X11 print. > > PR PARADE GIRL - v-images > <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4229941907&k=cZpFdNz&lb=1&s=X2> > > > [image: image] > <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4229941907&k=cZpFdNz&lb=1&s=X2> > > > > > > PR PARADE GIRL - v-images > <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4229941907&k=cZpFdNz&lb=1&s=X2> > Victor Roger-Born in London, UK- can be reached at lensmanwriter at > outlook.com > . > View on v-images.smugmug.com > <https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/PR-PARADE-GIRL/50867934_QVgb9M#!i=4229941907&k=cZpFdNz&lb=1&s=X2> > Preview by Yahoo > > > When looking at the "properties" ,however, the image comes in at* 608KB*. > What I want to know is: > > How does the size of 608KB affect the blowing up of the image? 1. The > image can clearly be blown up to much larger than 8.5X11 (I've done this > with 4mp images using this system- > > gone to 20X24 without loss of quality) and > > > 2. How is this possible with an image of only 608 KB??? This question been > bugging me for years. > > I don't usually crop so severely, but I may in the future. > > > Many thanks for your time- Roger > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information