[Leica] Portraits that I'm proud of

[jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)]

Brian,

Thanks for the info on your work process.  Yes, PS is a lot easier than my 
late father-in-law's hand retouching of negatives with very sharp pencils. 
Still, he achieved some great prints the old way.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Reid" <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Portraits that I'm proud of


> Thank you all for your comments.
>
> Jim said:
>
>> Are your clients pleased with the sharpness?  Many older folks seem to 
>> appreciate a softer image.
>
> Mark said:
>
>> an inch too much space above her head in my opinion.
>
> These aren't quite print masters. When people order prints, I crop and 
> soften as needed. The cropping for a 5x7 isn't quite the same as the 
> cropping for an 8x10, and I like to leave a little extra room for such 
> crops.
>
> It's easy to get rid of sharpness in Photoshop. It's much harder to bring 
> it back. So in these proof masters I leave it there, though for older 
> clients I usually hand them paper proofs that are suitably softened. 
> Usually I set a mask over the eyes and any jewelry and shirt buttons (the 
> Photoshop Magic Wand is your friend) and then do a slight Gaussian blur on 
> the rest of the image.
>
> Brian
>
>
>
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