Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No because the night time ones and the tree on the first page are spot-on. Pages 3 and 4 also all tend to be better (in my opinion with regards to "printing") than 1 and 2, I do like quite hard images though, I used to use Neopan 400 processed in ID-11 or Rodinal (if it was pushed) and I'd be printing at grade 4, and Neopan had an exceptionally good tonal range . I don't have a recent version of photoshop but one thing that always surprised me was that there was no "hard/ soft" button so that you could knock and image up and down the scale rather than fiddling with contrast. In my vesion (7.0) you can adjust a colour cast separately (with a slider) for the highlight, mid-tones and shadows, but not the contrast, although I admit I may not have found the right button or menu as I can work with curves. Also photoshop is "wrong", in that if I were in a darkroom I'd have a neg that would take 15 seconds for and overall print, maybe 7 second holding back some shadow detail and an extra 15 secs burning in the highlight. So that would be 50% of the shadows and 100% on the highlights. Although photoshop was supposed to ease the conversion from the darkroom to digital if you ever burn in 100% on the highlight and doge the shadows by 50% it looks abysmal. I believe this maybe that digital is a straight line even if you have bumpy levels whereas paper had an exposure curve so could be pre-flashed to make it act in a more linear fashion. Also intensity of light from a darkroom enlarger works that the intensity drops off in a 1/r squared fashion (buggered if I can remember the would might be /reciprocal///)// as you move the head up (with r being the radius of a projected circle). Digital is a strange beast but then so is analogue, you half the amount of light by stopping down which is turning the aperture dial to the next value in a progresion of doubling root 2 (1.4.1, 2, 2.82, 4 etc...), sorry wittering now. Anyway the Missionary Nurse in Malawi in colour, she is spot on on my monitor, the habit is white and detailed, she is "black", but the man sitting in the bar, he is dark grey almost "black", yet the night and snow shots are certainly "black", so I think my monitor is pretty good and it maybe personal preference. Robert D. Baron wrote: > ===On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Philip Clarke <nod at bouncing.org> > wrote: > > >> These are very good a little lacking in contrast for my personal taste >> but that may be the conversion. >> > > I wonder if your monitor could be a bit off. They are spot on for me. > > Excellent work. > > --Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >