Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That new version is brighter. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Klein" <pklein@2alpha.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 9:08 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Breaking PLUG Commandment #1 > Bob: Oops, you're right. But it isn't the processing, it's me doing my > editing when I should have been asleep. :-) In my zeal to avoid blowing > out the boy's shirt, I left the whites a bit too gray. Do note though, > that it is an available light picture shot in pretty dim conditions. Shot > from Ted Grant's Famous Shadow Side (TM). Reposted, it should be better now. > > http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/StLouis/4-29DanRach.htm > > The original, for comparison > http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/StLouis/4-29DanRach0.jpg > > The film was Tri-X, the processing courtesy of Ballard Camera here in > Seattle. They actually develop B&W by hand in Xtol 1:1, then run you proof > prints through the color printing machine (and they're really black and > white, not Sepia-Green or Murky Magenta). > > --Peter > > Robert Meier wrote: > > >Very cute kids. But there is an overall grayish pall that drains the life > >out of the picture. Is this a scanning problem? Or a Walmart processing > >job? > > > >Bob > > > > > > > > > > These five year-old twins are the children of the friends we visited in > > > St. Louis after the LHASA meeting. They decided that I was the greatest > > > thing since sliced bread. So they hounded me unmercifully... er, followed > > > me around all week. :-) > > > > > > http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/StLouis/4-29DanRach.htm > > > > > > M6TTL, 35/2 Summicron (pre-asph), 1/30 at f/2. > > > > > > --Peter > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html