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Re: [Digital BW] Printing Pictures of Snow

2011-11-27 by crepuscolino

Good point about using relatively cooler paper...

 Thanks!

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Cdtobie <CDTobie@...> wrote:
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> Snow has a blue tint; so snow photos look best on bright white paper, not unwhitened papers, to avoid an unattractive yellow tint in the highlights. The highlight detail slider in Lightroom can be used to accent detail in snow highlights, with caution to avoid posterization. 
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> C. D. Tobie
> Global Product Technology Mngr.
> Imaging Color Solutions
> Datacolor.com
> CDTobie@...
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> On Nov 26, 2011, at 6:34 PM, "crepuscolino" <gianguido.cianci@...> wrote:
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> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I was wondering if you could share any tips/links etc. on developing and printing photographs with a lot of snow in them. How to you go about developing your raw files? How do you have snow look white, without looking flat? And then do you print the photo with a think black or grey border? What about a [0,0,0] black border that goes to the edge of the pper, effectively making it look like it was printed with white in on black paper?
> > 
> > I realize, I will be doing a lot of experimenting... but a few pointers would be handy.
> > 
> > Many thanks!
> > Gianguido
> > 
> > 
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