Frantisek - Nice portrait - I like the way her face is toward what I would guess to be the group's center of attention while her eyes clearly show she is aware of you photographing her.
WRT keeping detail in the highlights and the shadows with a wide contrast range, I've had good luck using this technique - create two layers, one with the highlights the way you want them and one that shows the shadow detail, then erase what you don't want from the top layer. Adjust the feathering on the eraser tool to give the most pleasing transition between the top layer and what shows from the bottom layer. Below are links to a couple sites that have free downloadable plug-ins that simplify BW conversion while still giving you some control over the outcome. Paul http://www.optikvervelabs.com/default.asp http://www.grafnet.com.pl/ http://www.grafnet.com.pl/Fotomatic%20Plug-In%20Filters/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frantisek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PDML" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 6:25 AM Subject: PAW: Wearing feathers > Hi, > this PAW from me is a bit different from my usual stuff. It's a > portrait (I hope <g>)! > > One issue I would like to hear some advice on, is the conversion to > B&W. The original was quite underexposed (it seems my for long time > trusty Metz 40MZ3i is developing exposure problems) so I converted > only using the red channel (the others were too dark because of > tungsten lighting and underexposure). As you can see, there is > problem with blown highlights on the lower left. In the other > channels they were not blown. What would be a good way to paste the > details from the other channels? My quick experiments were not good > with it. > > I originally wanted to post something different from the same venue > (it's a Forum 2000 conference on globalisation issues with some > ex-presidents like Vaclav Havel and other interesting figures, but > it was all the usual not-so-interesting news photographs I got > there). > > The URL: http://fotof.wz.cz/paw > > Comments appreciated! > > Good light! > fra > >
