Awesome Cam. This is great :thumbs:
you sweet talker, you! i actual prefer the full shot but it was too hard to see any detail that way. like i said, Sigma purists will probably hate my guts :grin:
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Will,
every image that comes out of the DP1 needs an upping of the contrast, IMO, especially when you go b/w. a nice little dab of auto level in PS helps as well.
your image is great, but maybe the above will help. did you shoot RAW or JPEG? you might also want to try using the USM... although you need to be careful of over-sharpening these Sigma files, my favourite way to dehaze is using the Unsharp Mask at 10-25.0-0 (sometimes more than one pass is necessary). if you do that, though, you may want to actually pull down the sharpening in SPP by -0.5 or -0.8.
as for the fun with the fill light (which really *is* marvelous!), this was the image i was talking about. i bumped down the exposure and juiced the fill light to exaggerate the blur and grain. i'm not sure if you can tell at this size, but the texture is dreamy. (everything but resizing done in SPP -- the blur was all me
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