Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now she is close to me. A real woman. ;-) I would love to see the conventionally enlarged print. Cheers, MIKIRO Philippe Orlent wrote: > Basically the image was first "cut" into different pieces after deciding > what had to be done: for each correction a different piece. > Almost no sharpening to this one, unless on some hairstrings. Contrasts are > pushed a bit in the dark zones. Some work on the skin: slight blurring in > overlay. Modifying lights in + whites of the eyes. > Some pushing of the already blurred zones. Beauty retouche (removing spots, > work on lips, etc.). In the end, noise (about .25%) is added to unify > everything. There's no rule about uniform or gaussian, monochromatic or > not. > Just what works best for that particular job. Some image editors produce > their own grain layers even. Background blurred a bit. > This one was shot on Tmax 100 and I was surprised of the beauty of its > grain > when grossly enlarged. Development was in HC110, but not in a lab: done by > the photographer himself. > > Just for the fun of it I added a scan of the contact print, too: > > http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/pIlse_p3-3.jpg > > Cheers, > Philippe > > > >>From: MIKIRO <miki@arbos.net> >>Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:36:13 +0900 >>To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>Subject: Re: [Leica] Film/digital wars >> >>Hi, Philippe. >> >>On my display, the image appears as if it has been sharpened, >>particularly at magnifications of more than 100%. Is it the case? It >>looks sharp but lacks liveliness of the skin texture, or a feeling that >>the model is embarrassingly close to you. ;-) If I were the client, I >>would ask some modifications. Some photographers intentionally add >>"noise" to make digital images look more true to life. Do you do similar >>tricks? >> >>Cheers, >> >>MIKIRO >> >> >>Philippe Orlent wrote: >> >> >>>This is one of the 4 portraits. I will let you decide for yourself if it's >>>too harsh or not (CAUTION: BIG file): >>> >>>http://users.telenet.be/philippe.orlent/Ilse_final.jpg >> >>