Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you for looking, Peter. The highlights are not blown on the processed dng or printing version. Very close, but not quite. What you see is an artifact of jpg compressing the tonal scale. The MM can be difficult in very high contrast lighting situations, if you do blow the highlights, there is no recovery at all. Just a grey blob if you try. Luckily I've had years of experience shooting slide film, so I understand metering needs to keep highlights under control. Not that I am successful every time, however... I should have used exposure compensation on those two image, and dialed it down by 1/3 or even 2/3 stops, and then placed the highlights where I wanted in post. But I was in a hurry. The MM allows you to pull up two or three stops out of the shadows quite cleanly, so I hardly ever worry about underexposing too much. Jay On 11/20/2013 2:47 AM, Peter Dzwig wrote: > Jay, > > Beautiful story and very interesting photos too. However I find that the > highlights in 1809 (all of the left hand side of the face as we look at > it) and > 1813 (particularly the cloak and crozier in the left hand) are blown, but > not so > in 1807. Is this an inability of the metering /exposure to handle this > kind of > light fall. Is it unusual for the MM? > > Peter > > On 19/11/2013 18:35, Jay Burleson wrote: >> Fascinating story, more detail here: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Winifred >> >> All with Leica Monochrom, APO-Summicron-M 1:2/ 50 mm ASPH., iso 320 >> >> The Virgin with the Laughing Child >> http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/Wales-2013/Monochrome/L1001807 >> >> St. Winefride Shrine >> http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/Wales-2013/Monochrome/L1001809 >> >> St. Winefride Shrine, Detail >> http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/Wales-2013/Monochrome/L1001813 >> >> Please click on an image to view a larger version. >> >> Thanks for looking and all comments welcome! -- Jay, Jay Burleson Gallery <http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/> "Being a Leica customer is like dating the most beautiful girl in the world... who cares more about herself than you... but, you keep calling her back anyway... because the sex is so good... most of the time." (RickLeica on LUF)