Julian de'Courcy
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Sigma Dp1 Merrill.
ACROSS THE HARBOUR AGAIN
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Pete Askew
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The first i my favourite of these and the composition works very well I think - the others are just very good! 
I especially like that the lad in the boat is looking away. Nice lead-in from the steps too.
I especially like that the lad in the boat is looking away. Nice lead-in from the steps too.
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Good stuff, Julian. I can't help thinking of you with your crutches, slowly sinking into the mud...Worth the trouble, though!
Julian de'Courcy
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Thank you Pete. Yes the composition of the first along with the actions is the more interesting.The first i my favourite of these and the composition works very well I think - the others are just very good!
Julian de'Courcy
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Thanks Rob. Worth the trouble, just. I did get stuck and ask the older lad for help which he kindly did, even though I was avoiding the proper mud, down side could not get out the house the next day. But then the upside , SPP it takes a day to process
Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Pete Askew
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Brian Moore
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I like that first one very much indeed, Julian. I find it pretty amazing that the Merrill can show good detail in the shadows and yet not be overwhelmed by all the light flooding in from the top left. (I've been shooting my DP1M at work a little over the past week or so and it refuses to be confused by shadow and big light in the same frame.)
Ivar Dahl-Larsen
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I see what all the others here say and I have to tune in to the choir. I like the first one a bit more than the other. But as a story, I think they are exquisite. Good work indeed. Sorry for your trouble.
Julian de'Courcy
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Thanks Brian. The Merril's are quite good at brining back the highlights, so I tend to bare the shadows in mind. these were taken at iso 400 and it seems you get a touch better dynamic range at iso 200 and 400. But can not say that for definite, it appears so.
I am still learning a lot about the B+W conversions in SPP, one thing as with these, I noticed by bringing them into SPP mono and set the contrast very low, low enough just not to get to that washed out look. . The phenomenal micro contrast the Merill sensor returns is a reason I believe that you can bring the contrast down so much and still keep a good structure at a finer level. Then when exported as a 16bit Tiff as long as the contrast is not completely washed out, it can be put back where needed. I rarely use the contrast slider but maybe the gradient layer in photoshop which the amount can then be adjusted . Sometime a couple of gentle layers, which one may be only on parts of the image most needing the contrast.
This is the setting for this image in SPP.
But really it was the low contrast in SPP which allowed for the image as the wall was very dark, I do also spot meter always and adjust accordingly.
