Nice shots - great placment on the twigs. The red lady bugs are getting less common here in sw Michigan and those new fangled orange ones are taking over.
- MCC At 11:16 PM 4/24/2002 +0000, you wrote: >Last weekend I had a great shoot with Amy, my favorite model. You'll see >one of the shots in the June portrait PUG. > But let me get to the point. I shot three rolls of Plus X BW and >three rolls of Portra 160 color neg. The lab was closed when I finished, >but I went home and processed the Plus X, according to my standard >recipe. I then made some contact sheets and printed a few 16x20s. Yeah, >I fussed over them, doing some test prints on smaller paper and >reprinting the big ones until I was totally satisfied. But it wasn't >very difficult to obtain some prints that were very nice to my eye. > On Monday morning I dropped the Portra 160 off at the lab. They >processed it and printed some 3x5s for me. The 3x5s were okay for >proofs, lacking a little bit in contrast and saturationbut good enough >to help me choose negatives to scan and print. So I did. > The scanning went well enough. I scanned some on an Epson 1640 and >some on an Agfa Duoscan 2500T, producing files of 170 meg and 260 meg >respectively. One of my favorite shots was a bit contrasty, with the >model being exposed quite differently from the background. (Main light >flash on a reflector umbrella with the leaf shutter lens, sky light for >fill). The scan didn't seem all that difficult, but when I loaded them >in the computer I had a heck of a time setting levels, hue, contrast, >and brightness at a point where the shots would print well. I kept >ending up with too much contrast and/or posterization even though things >looked good on the screen. Slightly frustrated, I rescanned with the RGB >curve tweaked a bit to give less contrast and the gamma pumped up to >around 2.1 with an appropriate amount of scanner exposure. Back in >PhotoShop I resorted to following the techniques for color correction >and contrast control as outlined in Barry Haynes and Wendy Crumpler's >book, titled "Photoshop 6 Artistry." This procedure focuses on >levels,using the eyedroppers to set highlight and shadow limits as well >as midtone range. That helped a lot. I made a few other intuitive >changes to saturation level and brightness. Then I used Selective Color >to pull some yellow out of the neutrals. Finally, I made a test print, >corrected a bit more, made another test print, corrected a bit more, and >finally, at long last, made a very nice print. > Which all goes to show that color photography is a no brainer. >Paul Stenquist >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Kalamazoo, MI [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - Photos: http://www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
