On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:25:00 +0200, Frantisek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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!
Frantisek, Can't help you with the BW conversion stuff, but I really like the photo!! <g> First of all, she's really pretty, which helps a lot (I know that's a shallow and sexist statement; so be it). I really like the fact that you chose to do a profile. That's something not always seen in portraiture, and it ~really~ works well with her. You caught her at just the right moment: very relaxed, a lovely gleam in her eye, a tiny (but natural) Mona Lisa smile - just perfect. Other details work very well, too, such as the relaxed slightly OOF hand, and the OOF table edge (as you said, maybe blown out, but it doesn't bother me - if you could tone it down a bit, it would look better). I like the OOF photographer in the background - makes me feel that it was taken at a fashion show, or a celebrity press conference or something - lends a bit of the exotic to it. All in all, I really like this one a lot! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
