i’m seeing some interesting pictures here! nice bw, and i’m very curious how all those tones will turn out in the printed version.
unfortunately, as i’m having a very busy period at work (we have to finish a project by dec 23rd) with hardly any free time i won’t probably be able to send my pictures before that day. you will get them as a nice new year present i guess and since it looks like this will be a bw exchange, i will do my best to choose a bw picture in the next days!
So… first of all, I have to say that I love Hahnemuhle papers! This one specificallly is extraordinary I think, how it spreads the light, and how it feels under your fingers. All in all, I can’t find any remark here, so good job!
Maybe you can share with us how you prepared the print? For example, sharpening, curves and so on…
I’m also noticing now that your print is on the green tones, while Martin’s has some violet in its grays.
This photo has not been manipulated much at all. Everything is done in Lightroom.
I did burn in the parts at the road, the light part in the background, and the out of focus leaves at the upper left. Apart from that, I only did a minor adjustment to the exposure, brightness and contrast. Wait… I did some small tweaks to the curve as well, a slight s-shape, but not much.
The output sharpen was done using the Lightroom sharpening for matt paper, normal setting, and that’s it.
I surprises me that you see the print as green toned. I do see the violet tint in Martins print, but I can’t see the green here. It should be neutral. It might have something to do with the difference in viewing light.
It might be the light, I was watching it under mixed light (incandescent main light + 6500K fluorescent desk light). I’ll watch it again tomorrow during the day
I don’t see any colour shift at all. It does appear somewhat darker on the right in print than on-screen. Not a major problem but some of the detail of the foliage is lost.
A more distinct difference is in the way the halo from the light works. On screen it is like a fine mist, gently petering out – a nice smooth tonal shift. In the print is is much more abrupt. The light, therefore, seems quite a lot harsher ithout the subtle glow that seems to come in the screen version. This effect also seems independent of viewing distance (from a few inches to a few meters).
Hi Martin, the last thing you commented was a very good description of something I couldn’t quite find the words for myself. I will look into that, because I really find the picture more satisfying on screen than on paper. The problem is that it is impossible to fix things like that unless you are aware of what is causing the difference.
i’m seeing some interesting pictures here! nice bw, and i’m very curious how all those tones will turn out in the printed version.
unfortunately, as i’m having a very busy period at work (we have to finish a project by dec 23rd) with hardly any free time i won’t probably be able to send my pictures before that day. you will get them as a nice new year present i guess
and since it looks like this will be a bw exchange, i will do my best to choose a bw picture in the next days!
Deadline the day before x-mast, sounds familiar.
Good luck with the project.
So… first of all, I have to say that I love Hahnemuhle papers! This one specificallly is extraordinary I think, how it spreads the light, and how it feels under your fingers. All in all, I can’t find any remark here, so good job!
Maybe you can share with us how you prepared the print? For example, sharpening, curves and so on…
I’m also noticing now that your print is on the green tones, while Martin’s has some violet in its grays.
This photo has not been manipulated much at all. Everything is done in Lightroom.
I did burn in the parts at the road, the light part in the background, and the out of focus leaves at the upper left. Apart from that, I only did a minor adjustment to the exposure, brightness and contrast. Wait… I did some small tweaks to the curve as well, a slight s-shape, but not much.
The output sharpen was done using the Lightroom sharpening for matt paper, normal setting, and that’s it.
I surprises me that you see the print as green toned. I do see the violet tint in Martins print, but I can’t see the green here. It should be neutral. It might have something to do with the difference in viewing light.
It might be the light, I was watching it under mixed light (incandescent main light + 6500K fluorescent desk light). I’ll watch it again tomorrow during the day
It could just as well be my lighting that is fooling me. Or me not being as sensitive to the small color shift.
I don’t see any colour shift at all. It does appear somewhat darker on the right in print than on-screen. Not a major problem but some of the detail of the foliage is lost.
A more distinct difference is in the way the halo from the light works. On screen it is like a fine mist, gently petering out – a nice smooth tonal shift. In the print is is much more abrupt. The light, therefore, seems quite a lot harsher ithout the subtle glow that seems to come in the screen version. This effect also seems independent of viewing distance (from a few inches to a few meters).
Hi Martin, the last thing you commented was a very good description of something I couldn’t quite find the words for myself. I will look into that, because I really find the picture more satisfying on screen than on paper. The problem is that it is impossible to fix things like that unless you are aware of what is causing the difference.
Thanks!