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Subject: [Leica] Bad Exposure or Something Else?
From: dorysrus at mindspring.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sun Dec 5 20:12:55 2004

John,
You are a bolder man than I am John.  I started with an almost identical
result with a little levels work in PS.  I had most of the sky darkened
with some quick mask when I decided I was going over the deep end.  Then
I started imagining some MC yellow arches at the end of the street and
knew that I should stop.

What I really decided was that the image needed to be taken some
distance to the left of the taken position for a better use of the sun.

Right about then I realized that I should put film in my camera and just
take my own pictures.

But then again, he did ask for comments...

Don
dorysrus@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 John Collier
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 10:32 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Bad Exposure or Something Else?

May God have mercy on my immortal soul. Is this more what you had in 
mind?

http://gallery.leica-users.org/album63/another_man_s_image

John Collier

On Dec 5, 2004, at 5:50 PM, Richard S. Taylor wrote:

> As I turned onto Memorial Drive in Cambridge last week the sycamores 
> along the drive were glowing white-gold in the mid-afternoon sunlight.

>  I quickly parked and took pictures.  The results were disappointing 
> to say the least.  I've posted one example here:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/PICKS/21_0021>
>
> Photographic qualities of the picture aside, I wonder if any of you 
> might have any thoughts on what I might have done to improve the 
> rendition of the glowing trees that I saw with my eyes.  There seems 
> to be an exposure issue here since the highlights look blown out but 
> would it have been better on a slower film, or is there a scanning 
> problem, or something else?
>
> This photo isn't even close to the image I had in my head. 
> Manipulation in Photoshop to darken the image overall helps but isn't 
> really the solution.  The posted picture is unmanipulated and 
> uncropped.

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