Thanks, Chuck. You may be right re the ball. In fact. I deliberately
toned it down in the B&W by digitally filtering out some blue light.
Interestingly, my wife prefers the color because of the pattern of the
pink throw rug and the blue ball. The brightness of the ball also
corresponds to Tilly's (the dog's) opinion of its importance--she likes
to keep it close by, always. But of course the viewer doesn't know that :-)
That little dog never stops making us laugh. She loves her things, and
she's constantly dragging them about and arranging them to her liking.
The pink rug and the ball are hers, and she knows it.
--Peter
> I was glad to see the B&W version which is much better than the color
version. The color version suffers from
> the extremely bright blue ball which steals the thunder away from the
dog as main subject. I think suppressing the
> brightness of the blue ball would make a major improvement.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> On 11/30/2012 4:17 AM, Peter Klein wrote:
>
> Wife says, "You have to see what she did." Grabbed camera. Tiptoed to
> dark living room, lit with only one blub. This is what I saw:
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 [at] N04/8231023549/>
> OM-D E-M5 with the Panny 20mm f/1.7, wide open, 1/60, ISO 3200. Object
> in picture was darker than it appears, but just as cute.
>
> (Note: Next two links are big, about 1.3 MB.)
>
> Then I did a B&W conversion, and optimized things a bit. Here it is at
> 50%, so it approximates what you'd see in a nice big print.
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/337070-1/PB290136-50pct.jpg>
>
> And just the face at 100%:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/337073-1/PB290136-100pct.JPG>
>
> Sharp enough? I think so. I used about half Capture One's default
> luminance noise reduction, which seemed to be the sweet spot between
> keeping detail and getting rid of noise that would matter in a
> decent-sized print.
>
> --Peter
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