You should be very happy with it. It is a strong portrait and an effective image. I like the pose and the colors, especially the way the colors of her clothing mesh with those of the door and the stone in the wall.
One tiny nit: the buttons or whatever they are in her collar distract my attention, probably because of their location right at the clavicle bones. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > I shot this pic about ten years ago with the 6 x 7 and the 165 mm leaf > shutter lens. I used a Pentax AF 400T flash firing into a camera-jointed > umbrella,The film was Portra 400 exposed at f8 at 1/250th. I was never able > to get a good scan of it. Don't know why. Perhaps conflict between the > woman's skin tones and the background. > > Revisited it today, and I was able to get a pretty good rendering with the > Epson V500. I scanned it at 6400 dpi, using the Epson Scan software, which I > have found to be much better than Vuescan. I I did some additional color > correction and some dodging and burning in PhotoShop. Pretty happy with it > now. It's here: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17091312&size=lg > -- > 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. -- 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.
