[pure-silver] Re: Under exposed frame
- From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:23:02 +0100
By all means, try flashing, but as suggested elsewhere, it will reduce
highlight contrast. That's not you want.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
On 1/3/05 4:41 PM, "Justin F. Knotzke" <jknotzke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <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
>
>
>
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