Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Arne's PAW 1 for 2002
From: Arne Helme <Arne.Helme@stelvio.nl>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 19:06:51 +0100

In message <B85B34CD.7504%Mail@SlideOne.com>, 
John Straus writes:
>Hi Arne,
>
>I like the tone of his face and hands lit from the candle. I'd like to see
>it cropped as a square starting at the candles and including some of the
>chair. The blacks seem too black as well, no sweater detail. This could be
>that the image has no saved profile. I started to assign a gray gamma 2.2 to
>my B&W images for the web and they seem to look good while I'm working on
>them and on the web. If I don't tag them the mids and blacks drop.
>

John,

I agree with you on both issues.  I generally find it hard to show good shadow 
detail (not scanner noise in dark areas) in b/w images. I adjusted the picture 
to conceal it.  On traditional wet prints I expect much better results.


>I do like the tone of the XP2 as well the other shots show it off nicely.
>I'm sure you sis would kill you for posting #3 :) I like the last shot #8 of
>the fill flash a lot!

Sis? Wife!!!

- -- Arne


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