Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: PAW Robert Stevens The good and the bad.
From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 22:36:29 -0400
References: <0.1300001572.1986553305-1463792126-1010441177@topica.com>

Allan:

The film was TMAX 400, which is a T-grain silver based B&W film.  I 
developed in Xtol 1:1.

The secret to the eyes is to lighten them slightly in Photoshop.  I use the 
lasso tool, circle the eyes, set feathering to 10 to or what ever is 
appropriate for the image size and then then use curves to lighten them up 
slightly.  It is something I learned printing.  In the case of printing in 
the darkroom, you put two pieces of Plasticine on a thin wire and dodge 
both eyes at once.

Regards,

Robert


At 08:57 PM 1/7/2002 -0500, Allan Wafkowski wrote:
>Very nice. I love his eyes and the "bokeh horse."
>
>Nice and smooth: did you use a C-41 B&W film?
>
>Allan
>
>On Monday, January 7, 2002, at 05:08 PM, Robert Stevens wrote:
>
>>I decided to try the PAW project.  I title this week the good and the bad 
>>things in my life.  Both were shot with a Noctilux last week.
>>Critiques are appreciated.   I am new to scanning and presenting B&W, so 
>>that much will be a learning process.
>>
>>http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/PAW2001/index.html
>
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