If that's all you wanted, just burn a little with the 5 filter in that area. Pretty much what Ryuji suggested. Many ways to skin a cat. But you can probably see a pattern emerging in all this advice. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin F. Knotzke" <jknotzke@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 7:41 AM Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Under exposed frame > <quote who=Gene Johnson date=[03/01/05 09:36 AM]/> > > I could print this pretty much straight up. The exposure's not that bad and > > it's a nice scene. Your highlights and mids look fine. The "problem" shadow > > areas are a black dress in shadow and the inside of a fireplace in shadow. > > I don't think there's much in those areas to get no matter what you do. For > > me, the hardest part is the face of the woman on the left. Pre-flashing > > might help get more detail there, but it might have an unwanted affect on > > your highlights. i might dodge that area a "little". Not much more than > > about 20% of the overall exposure time or it will get even muddier than it > > already is. That alone might be enough depending on how fussy you want to > > be. > > I find my scanner always seems to scan at a much higher exposure > rate then I would like. I almost always have to crank down the exposure > to .5 or .3 on vuescan. Otherwise, everything is just too bright. > > But it amazes me that the scanner can pick this up no problem. Yet > on a properly exposed contact print, any prints and even looking through > a loupe, I can't really make out too much detail: everything is just too > dark. > > Also sorry to all if I confused everyone's approaches. As you can > see I am rather new to anything other then a straight print. Straight > printing I could do nothing with this frame. Everything was way too > dark. If I printed it lighter, I couldn't get any blacks. I felt like I > had no play in the print. > > I don't much care for the girl on the left (my sister) I mean.. in > the print, my sister is pretty cool.. ;-) I am mostly concerned with > getting the middle girl's eyes. That's the frame for me. Then if I can > get the highlights in the girl on the right's hair, I am off to the races. > > But trying to get the girl in the middle properly exposed, her hair > comes out gray when really it's black. If I try to get her hair a > convincing black, her face is too dark. > > So I am going to try flashing the paper and if that doesn't work > try split printing as suggested here (not really the method I originally > proposed). > > Thanks again to everyone, > > J > > > > > -- > Justin F. Knotzke > jknotzke@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.shampoo.ca > ============================================================================ ================================= > To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.