[Leica] Aaron's PAW 10: The Great Outdoors

[aaron.sandler at duke.edu (Aaron Sandler)]

Don,

Thanks for the suggestions.  I wish I could blame it all on overexposure 
with the pinhole cam, but truthfully I had a hard time with the color on 
this one: I scanned without any adjustments applied in the scanning 
software b/c it's what seems to work best for me with my B&W negs.  But 
with this color neg, I wrestled to get something reasonable with the "full 
range" scan as a starting point.  I actually desaturated a fair bit in PS, 
so I'll just try dialing that back some, and play a little with the 
curves.  I really don't have a great sense of color adjustments in PS, 
unfortunately.  I never worked with color in the darkroom, and the 
adjustments available back when I worked in a one-hour lab were pretty 
limited, so I've got almost no background.  :(

I am impressed with your memory re: aggressive sheep...I didn't turn my 
back on these two untrustworthy creatures for a second, even though they 
were behind a fence.  I don't trust them a bit.  :)

Best,
Aaron

At 07:13 PM 3/11/2006, you wrote:
>Aaron,
>I like the swishy bamboo, the negative is possibly overexposed which is why
>the image is so flat.  Try a little curve and saturation to bring back some
>more white and black and pump up the greens just a tad.  Nothing to excess,
>but a touch brighter and a touch greener.
>
>Sheep are sheep, at least these were not attacking you like the sheep in
>jolly old England.
>
>0.02
>
>Don
>don.dory@gmail.com
>
>
>On 3/11/06, Aaron Sandler <aaron.sandler@duke.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > Spring is in the air, as evidenced by so many wonderful postings by Don,
> > Sonny, Ric, etc...I've been spending as much time as possible outside,
> > walking around with the kiddo.  Occasionally he even lets me take a 
> > photo.
> >
> > This week I'm showing two photos I took recently in such
> > circumstances...the first is a couple second exposure of bamboo swaying 
> > in
> > the wind using one of my pinhole matchbox cameras.  The second...well, I
> > don't really know what to say about it...For some reason I like
> > it..probably more than it deserves.  At least it's an M6 shot, so it's
> > on-topic.  :)
> >
> > http://www.sandlerphotographs.com/paw/2006_10/
> >
> > Comments always welcome,
> > Aaron