Digital BW, The Print

> From: Richard Sintchak [mailto:richcontaxg@...]
>
> They seem very nice subject wise but in a word they are
> "flat"---Lacking in strong punch and good contrast. I copied a couple
> into PS and looking at the Levels histogram neither had a true black
> nor a true white. Your tones were too condensed as well. Try to tweak
> with levels or curves a bit, get some rich blacks and add some sparkle
> to the highlights and the entire image will have more pop and snap.

Thanks for the suggestion. I found that on my (calibrated) monitor, going
all the way to zero lost some of the shadow detail. Maybe I need to use
Curves and stretch the last 5% without clipping them entirely.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...