Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > On Mar 13, 2010, at 2:21 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >>> >>> On Mar 13, 2010, at 12:00 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >>> >>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW2010/sunrise.jpg.html >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> please enlarge... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> M9 Summicron 35mm/2 pre (IV) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Steve >>>>> >>>> 12.000 K if I ever saw one. >>> >>> >>> sorry Mark, I don't understand this. >>> >>> Steve >> >> >> The coldest shot I've seen in years. >> Blue. Cyan. >> High elevation with lots of blue cyan sky no clouds and it makes for >> amazingly cold light. >> Which I'm estimating was around 12,000 k or a bit more. >> a tungsten conversion filter might not even be enough to balance it. >> I'm not saying the color was wrong it was supposed to be cool on a scene >> like that. >> If you were shooting film. > > > > > It looks just the way I remember it. And for good reason. Is that wrong? > Why > would we wish to change it? Why do we wish to make it look like light > somewhere else, at low altitude, later in the day, another time of the > year...Why does that improve the shot? Sounds like that's a great way to > get > fired, kicked out of a contest, or at least confuse people, maybe only > subliminally.... > > Just an silly amateur question, wanting to know, > > Steve > > >> >> That's my guess. >> >> >> http://www.aeimages.com/learn/color-correction.html >> >> >> [Rabs] >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> It looks like a shot which was done in very cold conditions which needs at this point to be only some slightly more warming. You might try it at least and see if doesn't look even more like what you saw. And if it seems like you've cut through a cast in the shot. When that happens its like you've cut away a layer and you get more clarity. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner