Using color negative films for commercial resale, quality mandates that you pro-rate the film speed by one stop (expose at half the iso rated by the film manufacturer) and push process by at least two stops. >From that you get a nice 'meaty' negative and using standard color print methods can get a print of substantial print quality. S. Shapiro ----- Original Message ----- From: "kostas papakotas" <kostaspapakotas@hotmail.com> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@ase-listmail.rit.edu> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 10:53 AM Subject: digitaly correcting color photos > well things are still not getting any better with my concert photography > efforts, so i do have to ask for your help. > > first i have a question to ask...what is the reason i'm getting grainy, > grayed (underexposed ? )shots. one possibility could be that the light is > not enough anyway, but i still get photos like that even at shutter speeds > of 1/30 or faster. another possibility is the TTL meter screwing up in the > concerts' low light situations.for those reasons i usually overexpose 1 > stop. > yet i heve been told that the real reason is that the meter reads a > basically black scene, and sets the exposure to bring that black frame to > 18% gray. > > a good example would be the my latest session, found at: > http://groups.msn.com/clenchedteethphotography/longliveconcertphotos.msnw?Pa ge=1 > all these color photos were corrected by tinkering with the brightness and > contrast of the frames to get an almost black background, and occasionaly > with increasing the contrast of the dominant color, or by decreasing the > color (just a slight hue actually ) of the background. > > actually my ability to digitally manipulate a frame is to scan a print and > then use the Windows PhtoEditor (no Photoshop available). > > So i need better tips coming from you, on how to effectively improve such > photos. > > thjanx all beforehand, kostas > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com >
