Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote: >Yesterday, I finished scanning my second roll of XP2 Super, this time with pictures from Denmark in November. The one that caught my eye is this portrait >of my friend Beata in a Copenhagen caf?, illuminated by window light: >http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3773170401&k=5kXKR2m&lb=1&s=O <http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#%21i=3773170401&k=5kXKR2m&lb=1&s=O> >Voigtlander Bessa R2M, 50mm Summicron collapsible (anno 1953 according to serial number), Ilford XP2 Super. >Cheers, >Nathan ======================================================================================================================= I think this is a marvelous portrait, showing us a real person, and I don't feel it makes her look bad at all. I do think the blacks in the clothing and background need to be darker, though. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA POY 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt