Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not really, Peter. I could not have got that look without the Monochrom and the files it produces. Ask Tina or John M. & they'll affirm that. All the information was there; but the raw file has such a long tonal scale (e.g. looks really flat) and you have to place the shadows and highlights where you personally wish them during PP. The camera-produced jpgs push everything equally from both ends, and compress the all the tonalities equally bad, but the raw files are amazing. It is exactly the same as wet printing - you have a neg, so choose your paper contrast, developer, and burning / dodging regimen to produce the look you wanted when you took the picture. But only if your neg has all the info in it could you get that print that made you gasp (and the Monochrom does that). Only now it is done with electrons! Jay On 1/2/2014 7:08 AM, Peter Dzwig wrote: > OK so it's your PP not the M > > Peter > > > On 01/01/2014 22:23, Jay Burleson wrote: >> Peter, thanks for looking! >> The raw images were pretty flat, so they were pumped up some in LR, while >> holding the blacks up to keep detail. >> Nothing too dramatic, I did have a yellow filter on the lens to help the >> skies. >> >> Jay >> >> On 1/1/2014 10:30 AM, Peter Dzwig wrote: >>> Jay, >>> >>> I have been following this series with a great deal of interest as I >>> know the >>> area well. >>> >>> >>> The M gives an interesting combination of light and detail. Are these >>> the basic >>> images, or have you PS'd them or something? I thought that earlier ones >>> from >>> other sites that you visited were less grey, stronger blacks: greater >>> density if >>> you like. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> [For those who don't know the area, the Castle is pre-Norman in origin >>> (it goes >>> back to the late ninth Century) and was only destroyed after treachery >>> in the >>> mid-seventeenth. The damage was caused by blasting the walls with >>> gunpowder to >>> undermine them.] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 01/01/2014 15:50, Jay Burleson wrote: >>>> All with Leica Monochrom, Summicron-M 1:2/ 35 mm ASPH., iso 320 >>>> >>>> Looking Northeast >>>> http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/England-2013/Monochrome/L1002095 >>>> >>>> Tower Remains >>>> http://jayburleson.com/leica/gallery/index.php/England-2013/Monochrome/L1002097 >>>> >>>> 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)