On Mar 28, 2013, at 9:15 PM, "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Thanks Dan. I had never noticed the buttons. At first I thought you were referring to her earrings. But now I see what you're referring to. They may just be collar points. Not sure. I could get rid of them and make the collar smooth. I'll have to look at the hi-res version. Paul > 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. -- 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.
