Thanks! I have to spend the day getting the car serviced for our trip to
Wisconsin, but I'll work on this one some more. My darkroom days are done,
though. It will have to be an inkjet print ;-)
Tina
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Moose grunted:
>
> > It is, to my mind, a superior image, in two different ways:
> > First, the pose is much better..
>
> I somewhat agree. The pose is better, but as she is looking towards the
> door, the door becomes the subject. As wall art, I think I prefer the
> first, but either one are far better than anything I can get. I would like
> to see both processed the same way, but honestly, absent a comparative,
> both are excellent.
>
>
> > Second, efx has done terrible things to the surface detail/texture of the
> door...
>
> I'm wondering if this is more a function of how the JPEG engine has trashed
> those particular tones. With the stretching of the contrast curve like
> this, the JPEG engine is going to choke on these types of textures with
> those contrasts.
>
>
> > I'm not sure what efx is supposed to do, but it has gone far beyond
> adjusting tonal curves to match a film look. I don't see why one would want
> such harsh contrast and surfaces for such a tender subject.
>
> This might be where we could be parting ways in our thinking. The first
> image has a distinct museum look to it. The second has a more literal look.
> Maybe backing off a little bit, but throwing some localized
> contrast/brightness adjustment in a few spots to give the image the snap it
> needs. I fear that if Tina did that, though, it could end up with an
> overcooked photoshop look.
>
> This is the kind of picture that I'd love to have a negative of in order to
> darkroom print it with the densities and contrasts of the first one with
> the subtle tonalities in the skin and highlights that can be pulled out
> with split-grade printing.
>
> Tina, this COULD be done. Digital file to a inkjet contact negative, then
> darkroom printed on AgX-Fiber with a heavy dose of selenium and coffee
> toning.
>
> Yum.
>
>
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