Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, these enlarged versions look better and more manageable than the St. Catherine ones, Peter. On the earlier ones, it dawned on me that we'd eaten just across from the church in La Belle Mara?ch?re restaurant a couple of months ago when I was over visiting my son. Douglas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Dzwig" <pdzwig at summaventures.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 12:18 AM Subject: [Leica] [IMG] PESO - More In Lluis footsteps > More from my trip to Brussels. > > In tinkering around with this lot I found a way to deal with them that > surprised > me: taking the original grey scale to 8-bit I then used ColorEfex and used > its > B&W conversion with a tiny bit of tweeking and it seems to have improved > things > a lot. > > > In deference to many people I have scaled these to be 1500 on the long > side. > > > Anyway. It was the week of the Brussels Jazz Festival and it was teeming > with > rain. These are from there. The first two on the main stage in the Grande > Place: > > Luca di Maio - Black Rainbow. Amazing performance. If you like jazz get > this > guy's album when it comes out in September. > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/PESO2011/Luca_di_Maio_Brussels_1-1.jpg.html> > > This guy was the star of the last night. I can't remember his name, but > this was > his sound check: > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/PESO2011/Sound_Check_Brussels-1.jpg.html> > > Then there were these guys who had been playing gigs in Belgium for years. > I cam > across them in a bar, just playing for the hell of it and really winding > the > audience up. > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/PESO2011/Old_Rowdies_2-1.jpg.html> > > and > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/PESO2011/OldRowdies-1-1.jpg.html> > > Highlights are too blown! > > All M3 on XP2 400, handheld in rapidly descending gloom and rain. > > > Your comments and constructive criticisms are as always welcome, > > Thanks for taking the time to look. > > Peter Dzwig > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >