Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't generally talk about camera equipments. I feel like I have to apologize for talking about cameras rather than photography. Well, here's the apology: sorry, gear talk ahead... Michael Johnston's excellent blog references President Elect Obama's official portrait <http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2009/01/the-new-official-portrait-of-the-president.html>and a discussion ensues on the difficulty of capturing Mr. Obama's skin color. During the campaign, I was often aghast at how bad some of the online news photographs were with his skin being frequently more yellow than not. So I have to agree that this official portrait seems to capture the skin color quite a bit better... (For more and the photo, please read: http://rfman.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/the-olympus-colors/) -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // b: http://rfman.wordpress.com