[pure-silver] Re: Under exposed frame
- From: "J.R. Stewart" <jrstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:01:04 -0500
It may be this thread raised so much interest because Justin showed us the
image he was having trouble with.. much easier to relate to than a paragraph
of words. This brings me back to some of the discussions we've had over the
past couple days regarding a pure-silver gallerie (which Ryuji offered to
help with). We may not be able to solve Justin's problem, but I for one
learned alot about contrast, preflashing, split-printing (or not), and
masking as ways to salvage a negative.
I hope we see more visual examples in the future, whether via a pure-silver
gallery, apug posting, or whatever.
J.R. Stewart
Leesburg, VA
----- Original Message -----
From: "DarkroomMagic" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "PureSilverNew" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:26 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Under exposed frame
> We should have more of these hands-on questions here. Puts all of this
> theoretical talk into perspective.
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> Regards
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> Ralph W. Lambrecht
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> On 1/3/05 5:06 PM, "Justin F. Knotzke" <jknotzke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> <quote who=Ryuji Suzuki date=[03/01/05 09:09 AM]/>
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>>> 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.
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>> Ryuji,
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>> Thanks for the reply.
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>> I posted a full rez jpeg in a earlier post if you want to look at it.
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>> 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.
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>> If I print for her eyes then I can't get any real blacks.
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>> That's essentially the problem in a nutshell.
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>> 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.
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>> Anyhow, the goal is more to learn different techniques then it is
>> to get the print. But getting the print would be nice.
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks Ryuji,
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>> J
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