[pure-silver] Re: Under exposed frame
- From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:26:17 +0100
We should have more of these hands-on questions here. Puts all of this
theoretical talk into perspective.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
On 1/3/05 5:06 PM, "Justin F. Knotzke" <jknotzke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <quote who=Ryuji Suzuki date=[03/01/05 09:09 AM]/>
>
>> Flashing the paper can only reduce highlight contrast. I don't think
>> you want that, unless your base exposure requires very high contrast
>> to render the main subjects with natural contrast, and it makes
>> highlight too hard. This part is hard to tell because you didn't show
>> the raw image, or explain the details of your photoshop
>> manipulation. So I'm just giving one possibility.
>
> Ryuji,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I posted a full rez jpeg in a earlier post if you want to look at it.
>
> As stated, the problem is the prints are too dark. I have to really
> stop the lens down and use very low times in order to get anything other
> then complete black. When I do get real blacks.. say in the middle
> girl's hair, the rest of the image is also near black with only the girl
> on the right coming out with any detail.
>
> If I print for her eyes then I can't get any real blacks.
>
> That's essentially the problem in a nutshell.
>
> I have saved everyone's responses and I am going to try them all
> and give a detailed description of what worked (hopefully) and what
> didn't work.
>
> Anyhow, the goal is more to learn different techniques then it is
> to get the print. But getting the print would be nice.
>
> I understand everyone has different ways of doing things and I
> really don't want to stir up any arguments.. But I will definitely try
> your method and I'll let you know how it comes out.
>
>
> Thanks Ryuji,
>
> J
>
>
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