Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/06/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Considering the light that you were working with, those are very good images. Even the last one. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 6/17/2016 6:18 PM, Peter Dzwig wrote: > 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 >