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Subject: [Leica] IMG: B&W Images
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 23:14:35 +0100
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You did a good work Jim on this picture, it looks great, maybe the focusing 
or the clarity on the eyes is a little bit over processed for my personal 
preferences, but there are your preferences the ones important, it is your 
picture.

Lluis
 

> El 4 mar? 2019, a les 19:33, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> va 
> escriure:
> 
> After reading Tina and Lluis' discussion of B&W image processing, I pulled 
> up one of my first and favorite Leica images and reprocessed it.  This was 
> camera shop processing, from 1952, and had some scratches and flaws.  I 
> used Neat Image to clean it up without losing detail, Focus Magic Level 1 
> to sharpen slightly, Photoshop tools to remove some imperfections, and 
> then Silver Efex Pro 2.0 for final adjustments.
> 
> You are both right.  The tools available for B&W are very limited when 
> compared to color images.
> 
> This is my favorite shot of my late wife, at age 20, in 1952.
> 
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070706-Donna+02+52.JPG.html
> 
> Leica IIIa, Coated Elmar 50/3.5, Kodak Plus-X
> 
> -- 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> 
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