Hi Juan, My comment wasn't so much about skin tones as it was about overall mid-range tonality being compressed. Of course, skin tones often fall into that range. Perhaps that's a bit of nit picking for some, but as a long time Tri-X user, it's those middle tones that keep me coming back. That's not to say that the tonality of your pics is poor - in fact, I like a lot of what I see on the screen (that's in part why I want to see them larger), I just don't see it quite as Tri-X like as you may, or may have hoped to see.
If you want to post or send a RAW file, please do. Well, come to think of it, with my dial-up connection it'll take me forever to download it. Maybe you can put one or two on a CD and snail-mail it in my direction. Possible? In any case, the conversion to B&W looks pretty good - a lot better than many that I've seen. Have you tried printing the pics? Shel > [Original Message] > From: Juan Buhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 11/27/2004 10:02:14 AM > Subject: Re: PESO: ist D black and white > > Shel, Cesar, others: > > I'm suspecting a monitor gamma thing at play here. The skin tones > don't look dark in my Powerbook. I'll try saving the files with an > embedded profile, that might help. > > > Where did you get the settings that emulate Tri-X? > > What I did was to take a comparison between a color photo and a Tri-X > photo of the same scene (for an example, check here: > http://www.silveroxide.com/MorePixes.htm ), and play in Photoshop with > the channel mixer until I could make the color image look like the > Tri-X one. Then I saved the settings as an action. The url above > doesn't have a real Tri-X image though, I cannot find the images I > originally used. > > > > I'd like to see these, or at least some of them, larger (the women with the > > dog, guy with buckets, and the Chinese market pics). Can you put them up > > somewhere with an 800 or so pixel width? > > Will do. I have to reconvert them from the raw files though, I > initially converted at 800 pixels just to preview them... > > > j > > -- > Juan Buhler > http://www.jbuhler.com > blog at http://www.jbuhler.com/blog
