[rollei_list] Re: Agfa RSXII with Wratten filter
- From: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 22:13:11 +0000 (GMT)
Thank you very much for your technical opinion and
about the photographs Tim, I appreciate them and BTW
I'll try your adjustment afterwards.-
All the best
Carlos
--- Ellestad <ellestad@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> Hi Carlos -
>
> A warm color balance would seem correct for such a
> late sun but the "81"
> correction did seem over the top. I brought the
> image into Photoshop and it
> looked like the midrange level should be increased
> to about 1.20. Then put
> in only a fraction of the red/yellow of the "81",
> keeping the levels and
> saturation constant - perhaps Color Balance settings
> of about +10 Red
> and -30 Blue in the Mid-tones and +10 Red and -10
> Blue in the highlights.
> You might want to "cool off" the shadows a little
> bit with Color Balance,
> say about -10 Red and +15 Blue, as the deep shadows
> actually get "colder" at
> this time of day. Of course, all of this is based on
> personal
> interpretation.
>
> My screen is calibrated with Pantone's OptiCAL using
> their Spyder screen
> reading device and my calibrations have been in
> absolute lock-step with my
> lab for several years. I calibrate to a Gamma of 1.8
> - internet imaging is
> arguably more likely to be in the vicinity of Gamma
> 2.0 (and here and
> there), a modest difference. Other screen
> calibration devices work equally
> well, I'm sure. Visual "extinction" methods of
> screen calibration will get
> you in the ball park but they will never really nail
> color calibration - our
> eyes and minds are just too accomodating.
>
> Without screen calibration you are just adjusting
> images to suit yourself on
> your screen as it is . . . in its current status -
> its color and contrast
> caracteristics will wander as time goes on and the
> screen ages.
>
> I greatly enjoy your photos. It is very nice to see
> pictures of places
> far-off and exotic to me. Especially in that they
> are your personal shots -
> scenes selected by you to portray and communicate
> the part of the world that
> you live in. For me, there is an impact of presence
> in these scenes that
> isn't generally there in more contrived
> illustrations. Please keep up the
> good work.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim Ellestad
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carlos Manuel Freaza" <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:56 AM
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Agfa RSXII with Wratten
> filter
>
>
> > Thank you very much Eric,Antonio,Les,Slobodan for
> your
> > useful comments. It's interesting to note that I
> have
> > received several messages where the senders say
> they
> > like very much this version with color correction
> > filter; however others did not like this version.
> > This one is the same photograph without color
> > corrections filter, this is the raw scanned image
> with
> > PS levels and colors automatic correction (these
> > controls have a limited range):
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/itarfoto/315011605/
> >
> > All the best
> > Carlos
> >
> >
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