On 12 June 2012 14:38, George Sinos <[email protected]> wrote: > This is number 13 in the series "Print-a-Day for 30 Days." > > <http://georges.posterous.com/street-musician-print-a-day-13> > > There are quite a few musicians that perform at the open air farmer's > markets. This photo of a young violinist is one of my favorites. > > Some of you have seen an earlier version of this photo. I decided to > include it in the print-a-day project because of the big areas of blue > sky. In the past, with other printers, I've had trouble with this > type of gradient. There can also be an issue with blue and cyan. The > representation of this part of the color space can differ between > monitor and paper. > > I added the vignette to help define the border. I had not felt that > was necessary until I saw the printed version. Now that I've seen it, > I prefer the version with the vignette. > > The final print and a nice smooth gradient with no banding. The sky > color was very close. It seems just slightly more saturated. > > gs > > George Sinos
Nice George and good use of backlight too. Not too sure about the vignette - I wonder whether a tighter crop on the left and at the top, but leaving space on the right, would work better? Chris -- 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.

