Re: PESO: A BW conversion attempt

2005-10-06 Thread John Forbes
It's always interesting when people tweak other people's photos. In this case I prefer the original; Godfrey's version seems much too bright, and it emphasises the slightly washed out highlights. Perhaps I need to look at the calibration of my monitor. JOhn On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 02:54:28

Re: PESO: A BW conversion attempt

2005-10-06 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Oct 6, 2005, at 2:46 AM, John Forbes wrote: It's always interesting when people tweak other people's photos. In this case I prefer the original; Godfrey's version seems much too bright, and it emphasises the slightly washed out highlights. Perhaps I need to look at the calibration of

Re: PESO: A BW conversion attempt

2005-10-06 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Oct 6, 2005, at 2:46 AM, John Forbes wrote: It's always interesting when people tweak other people's photos. In this case I prefer the original; Godfrey's version seems much too bright, and it emphasises the slightly washed out highlights. Perhaps I need to look at the calibration of my

Re: PESO: A BW conversion attempt

2005-10-06 Thread John Forbes
I think some of the details, the eyes especially, look better in your version, but the hair and the jacket, IMO, look better in the original. I still prefer the original overall, though it also seems to have a very slight colour cast, or is that my imagination? Perhaps my left eye is

Re: PESO: A BW conversion attempt

2005-10-06 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Yes, the original has a very slight color cast. The rest, 'de gustibus non disputandem' applies. ;-) It was a quick edit anyway. I'm more interested that you can see the differences clearly. They're small. Godfrey On Oct 6, 2005, at 3:19 PM, John Forbes wrote: I think some of the

PESO: A BW conversion attempt

2005-10-05 Thread brooksdj
Had some time last week and i started to play with this shot below. I found an old email from Godfrey explaining his conversion mehto, so i tried it out. http://photobucket.com/albums/v408/divad_b/?action=viewcurrent=Hailey_BW.jpg Taken a few

Re: PESO: A BW conversion attempt

2005-10-05 Thread frank theriault
On 10/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Had some time last week and i started to play with this shot below. I found an old email from Godfrey explaining his conversion mehto, so i tried it out. http://photobucket.com/albums/v408/divad_b/?action=viewcurrent=Hailey_BW.jpg

Re: PESO: A BW conversion attempt

2005-10-05 Thread brooksdj
.frank said: I remember her! Cute girl. Did you show us this in colour, or was it another one. Lovely shot. I know nothing about these things, but the conversion looks okay to me. Maybe it could use a bit more punch... cheers, frank I think

Re: PESO: A BW conversion attempt

2005-10-05 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Oct 5, 2005, at 9:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://photobucket.com/albums/v408/divad_b/? action=viewcurrent=Hailey_BW.jpg I know nothing about these things, but the conversion looks okay to me. Maybe it could use a bit more punch... I think i submitted the colour version last