Guest malland Posted November 15, 2011 Share #41 Posted November 15, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Under my signature is a series that I shot with the GXR M-Mount and the Elmarit-ASPH, developed in RPP. —Mitch/Chiang Mai Tristes Tropiques? No, They Have a Strip Mall in Chiang Mai Too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CalArts 99 Posted November 15, 2011 Share #42 Posted November 15, 2011 Under my signature is a series that I shot with the GXR M-Mount and the Elmarit-ASPH, developed in RPP. —Mitch/Chiang Mai Tristes Tropiques? No, They Have a Strip Mall in Chiang Mai Too Then it appears that RPP doesn't recover highlights and open up shadows in high contrast situations. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest malland Posted November 16, 2011 Share #43 Posted November 16, 2011 Then it appears that RPP doesn't recover highlights and open up shadows in high contrast situations. You've got to be kidding, as you're stating the opposite of what my series shows: most of the outdoor shots are in extremely bright, high-contrast tropical light; and, yet, there are no blown highlights, except for a few specular high-lights and the shadows detail is the same as I would have with color negative film. —Mitch/Chiang Mai Tristes Tropiques? No, They Have a Strip Mall in Chiang Mai Too - a set on Flickr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalArts 99 Posted November 16, 2011 Share #44 Posted November 16, 2011 No, I'm not kidding. Yes, you've retained highlights, but you sacrificed the shadow area in your images and where that shadow area makes up the majority of the subject matter. Working with digital is like using transparency film, the opposite of negative film. A good raw conversion will give you ample shadow detail and yet recovering a lot of highlight. But sure, on a high contrast range you'll usually have to make some sort of sacrifice. When I look at your images, the main subject matter is much too dark (even adjusting my monitor.) There's also a stereotypical example of a back lighted image that has lost highlights in the background yet the main subject matter is still much too dark. At least open up those shadows and let the highlights fall where they may especially when they aren't a central part of the photograph (and you can always pull up the shadows and just mask the layer to paint out the background to retain the highlights.) Or just wait for better light. Anyway, the bottom line is that I honestly don't see anything that shows something special about RPP. But I will still try to give it a go one of these days when I get a chance, and I appreciate your enthusiasm about the software. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest malland Posted November 16, 2011 Share #45 Posted November 16, 2011 ...But sure, on a high contrast range you'll usually have to make some sort of sacrifice. When I look at your images, the main subject matter is much too dark (even adjusting my monitor.) There's also a stereotypical example of a back lighted image that has lost highlights in the background yet the main subject matter is still much too dark. At least open up those shadows and let the highlights fall where they may especially when they aren't a central part of the photograph (and you can always pull up the shadows and just mask the layer to paint out the background to retain the highlights.) ... Anyway, the bottom line is that I honestly don't see anything that shows something special about RPP... You can't judge what RPP can do with opening up shadows or preserving highlights because I've applied a film preset, mainly KR64, to all of the pictures, which creates "toe and shoulder" compression like film — that's because I feel that in this exceesigly bright and harsh light, your "blinded" by the bright parts of the scene and the shade areas appear very dark, unless you're specifically looking into the shade.The human eye has more similarity to film in terms of this type of compression than to digital. In any case, you can see what RPP can do in terms of preserving highlight detail in the following picture, which I believe was taken with an M9: http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1754353&postcount=34 —Mitch/Chiang Mai Tristes Tropiques? No, They Have a Strip Mall in Chiang Mai Too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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