Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/18

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V6 #25
From: "Tim Spragens" <t.spragens@cityweb.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 22:32:49 +0100

George wrote:

> For those who use photoshop regularly, perhaps you might want to
> comment
> on the possibility of doing this to record detail over a wider exposure
> range than the film can handle.  It would be a lot of work to put the
> final
> composite image together, but if it something important which requires
> good
> detail over a wide contrast range on slide film, this might be a way to
> compress the scene contrast in a way that it can be handled by slide
> film.
> Perhaps the resulting image may not look convincingly realistic, but at
> least you would not end up either with silhouetted shadows or blown out
> highlights.

Can do! But you better use a tripod and cable release, or you may 
get some rotation that can't be easily accounted for with Photoshop.

Regards,

Tim