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Subject: [Leica] Bride by window light
From: dorysrus at mindspring.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sun Jul 18 05:28:10 2004

Peter,
Now that is a divine portrait with a great capture of expression.  My
only minor quibble is the window to the right in the background.  Could
you have moved slightly to your right to eliminate it from the image?

Don
dorysrsus@mindspring.com

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Peter Klein
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 11:33 PM
To: lug@leica-users.org; leica@freelists.org
Subject: [Leica] Bride by window light

Last week, I was in New York/New Jersey for my cousin's wedding.  After
the 
official photographer did his thing with his F3 and big strobe, I'd
asked 
the bride to stand by the window.  I love window light.

http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/JonAntionWedding/2-34Antionette.htm

M6TTL, 50/1.5 Nokton, Kodak's newest Portra B&W 400 C-41 film, light
from 
the window to the bride's left.  Exposure?  I haven't the faintest idea.
I 
vaguely remember putting the metering circle 1/3 on the dress and 2/3 on

the bride's skin, telling her how gorgeous she was, and squeezing off
two 
shots.

I shot nine rolls of film. I plan on sending a CD to family members, and
I 
am NOT gonna scan that many negatives, so I used Costco's "develop and
burn 
to CD" service.  The good news is that the CD scans are about 2000 x
3000 
pixels, and are fine for casual email and Web.  Like machine prints,
they 
are too high-contrast, but a tweak here and there make them fine for 
family's on-screen consumption. The bad news is that Costco scratched
the 
negatives, fortunately after the scanning and printing were done.
Aargh.

I rescanned the above myself, and spent a lot of time with the clone
tool 
getting the scratches out. My Canon FS4000's digital FARE does fine with

dust spots, but just smears scratches.

--Peter Klein
Seattle, WA

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