Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/19

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Subject: [Leica] LightZone WAS City limits
From: dlr at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Mon Mar 19 13:07:44 2007
References: <45FE307B.2030909@dlridings.se> <10E90FEC-D299-4EDB-A67E-18F4861226FC@pandora.be>

On my train ride this evening I had a chance to play around with LightZone.

I used this shot:

http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2007v11/07v11-0008.jpg.html

Compare the processing of the same shot with LightZone:

http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2007v11/07v11-0008lz.jpg.html

It is easy to do "split filter" printing, adjusting contrast in the high 
end of the scale, without affecting the darker tones and vice versa.

I am not pro at this. I downloaded it just recently and haven't really 
had a chance to learn much. There are some good tutorials on the company 
site and also on the DigitalOutBack site.

The system is inspired by the zone system and it is a lot more intuitive 
(for me) as a photographer who has done things in the darkroom.

It works painlessly with layers and non-desstructive editing. All of 
your changes are saved in a separate file (takes about 100 kb) and when 
this file is combined with your original file, you get a result that can 
be printed or exported or whatever.

Pretty nifty stuff.

http://www.lightcrafts.com/index.php

Daniel

Philippe Orlent wrote:
> This is the kind of seascape I wouldn't mind looking at all day long:
> http://www.dlridings.se/gallery/v/Shoebox/2007v11/07v11-0008.jpg.html
> 
> Thanks for showing,
> Philippe

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