On Apr 16, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Boris Liberman wrote: > On 4/14/2011 07:22, Larry Colen wrote: >> It took me a moment to figure out why the tree was not blurry, yet >> not quite sharp. >> >> It doesn't quite work for me, especially at the small size on your >> first page. >> >> The first thing I would try is flipping it upside down, so that the >> tree is growing up rather than down. >> >> Then, if I were to have the picture stand on it's own, I'd kodalith >> it, dial the contrast to 11 so that it was either black or white, not >> a shred of grey. >> >> The other thing that I might do to it, is dial it down to the other >> direction, so that it is just subtle shades of grey, and use it as a >> computer background. > > Thanks, Larry. > > Some interesting suggestions that I would sure try. > > What is it "kodalith"?
Kodalith is very high contrast film. What I meant was to play with the curves, black point and exposure to get a pure black and white version of the photo. Like I did with this one: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rainbeau-Pictures/196615353705392?ref=ts > -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
