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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Too Dark?
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sun Aug 31 14:14:05 2008
References: <200808301713.AWD52283@rg4.comporium.net> <9b678e0808310919x4ea7b983v7c9657df34b81ea6@mail.gmail.com> <200808311706.AXD34438@rg5.comporium.net>

Tina,
The Silverfast manual is long but then it is German.  It really is not hard;
you should have the traditional controls in the upper part of the tools. You
have your histogram for levels and a curve dialogue that you can grab and
move up and down just like in LR.  I would try for one scan that the only
thing not black are the highlights on her face and of course the candles.

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote:

> At 12:19 PM 8/31/2008, you wrote:
>
>> Tina,Great shot.  I'm with Ted; the upper right and lower left need to be
>> paper black.  With the pushing the highlights are probably blown put try a
>> HDR with two scans to pull out any information at the edge of white.  What
>> I
>> think you are looking for is what W Eugene Smith did with his Haitian
>> insane
>> asylum image; almost all black except for the important details: her face
>> and torso and the tortillas.
>>
>
> Thanks, Don.  I hadn't thought about doing two scans but I'll certainly try
> that.  The manual for the Silverfast software is almost 500 pages long and
> looks extremely complicated, but if I can pull anything more out of these
> old negatives, it will be worth learning how.
>
>
> Tina
>
>
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com
>
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-- 
Don
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