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Subject: [Leica] Re: B.D.-esque Public Transportation shot
From: masonster at gmail.com (David Mason)
Date: Tue Jun 21 15:44:02 2005
References: <200506211926.j5LJMKT4091371@server1.waverley.reid.org> <48f5fad86eb17b362bc550646d7ec61b@nemeng.com>

Sweet.




On 6/21/05, Andrew Nemeth <azn@nemeng.com> wrote:
> 
> On 22/06/2005, at 5:26 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:
> 
> > I want to be like B.D. so I took my leica on the streetcar in New
> > Orleans when I was down there a couple weeks ago. Here is my attempt:
> >
> > http://dmason.net/tmp/streetcar.jpg
> >
> > comments and insults welcome
> >
> 
> Okay, you asked for it...  :?)
> 
> You really need to get a clue about JPEG image compression.  340 kb for
> an online snap is @ 4x larger than it needs to be.  Hint - Photoshop,
> save for web, use the % quality slider, and be amazed at how you can
> get a similar quality image for @ 80 kb.
> 
> Secondly, touch up the dust spots and lighten the shadow on the side of
> the person's face.  Burn & dodge, remember?...
> 
> Thirdly, composition?  You put the face right in the exact centre of
> the frame.  Come on, fumbling AF newbies do that sort of thing.
> 
> Next - what's the story about using grainy B&W?  Defiantly stuck in
> 1973?...
> 
> Finally - who is "B.D." and why do you want to be like him?  Isn't he
> the bloke who insists on posting five times every LUG digest?...  :?)
> 
> (Some of this post is serious, some tongue-in-cheek.  I'll leave it as
> an exercise for the reader to figure out which is which.)
> 
> 
> Regds,
> 
> 
> Andrew N.
> <http://leica.nemeng.com>
> 
> 
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In reply to: Message from azn at nemeng.com (Andrew Nemeth) ([Leica] Re: B.D.-esque Public Transportation shot)