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LFI DMR /2006
FIRST IMPRESSION
Joerg Schwalfenberg likes to view and
evaluate his mate-rial in Adobe Bridge.
He uses Adobe Camera Raw to calibrate
the gradation, colour and contrast of
his pictures and to transform them
from Raw into Tif format. Then the
pictures are imported into and retouched
in Photoshop with 16 bits per colour
channel. For optimum results, the
pictures must only be sharpened at the
very end of the imaging process. In our
case it was performed by the Alphabeta
repro service, where the pictures
Several hours of retouching were
necessary before the picture looked
spotless. Eyes and hairs received extra
attention. Leica R8, Digital-Modul-R,
Macro-Elmarit-R 60 mm f/2.8,
1/125 sec., aperture 11, ISO 100
Perfecting colour: in addition
to exposure and gradation, the colour
saturation is best adjusted in Adobe
Camera Raw. Here, red and green were
reduced with their respective sliders
to generate a cooler mood
Before manipulation
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