[Leica] The Glory of Steam 3

[philipprice80 at yahoo.com (Philip Price)]

Thankyou Douglas, I am almost ashamed to say that I have no software, 
printer, or scanner to post my pictures. I am still entirely film, and 
things are just so busy work wise, and I am lucky living here in Birmingham 
in that there are two very good labs who still offer traditional processing. 
The one lab ( Palm ) is run by two enthusiasts one who is a Leica user, and 
he does an excellent job on my B+W prints. Having said that I really need to 
drag myself into the 21st century ! Your pictures, and others I have seen on 
LUGers are just so good, but I do love the feel of film. One other thought I 
always buy one of the steam mags each month which then go in the recycle 
bin, if you are based in Germany, I would be happy to post them on to you 
when I have finished with them. Best wishes Phil. P.S. My wife and I are off 
on a weeks holiday to North Norfolk tomorrow, I am looking forward to having 
a look at the North Norfolk railway we are staying quite close to
 Sheringham it will be my first time in that area.




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From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:32:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] The Glory of Steam 3

Hi Phil,

I generally apply a bit of "Clarity" in Lightroom 2.4 (it's a kind of 
local contrast tool) and sharpen a little until I like the result. I 
also use the brush tool or the graduated filter to correct the exposure 
of the sky (I must buy a grey grad filter someday, it's always a problem 
with wide-angle lenses). Then I crop until I like the composition.

I usually use CS2 only for perspective correction and a couple of bits 
and bobs these days - BTW, there are some wonderful free plugins for 
Windoze from a bloke here in Germany available at

http://www.vicanek.de/plugins/wireworm.htm

he is a VERY clever lad, take a look at his animated sequences showing 
how his software works - great stuff.

Most of these were shot with Leica lenses between 21 and 35 mm or a 
Tokina 12-24 zoom (a superb lens), mostly on Leica film (R5 and R7) and 
Canon DSLR (300D and 20D) cameras.

I shoot Kodak Elite Chrome 50, 100 and 200 slides and scan them with a 
Coolscan V ED.

Cheers
Douglas

Philip Price wrote:
> Hi Douglas Lovely photos, can I ask do you tweak them in Photoshop in any 
> way or is this as they were ? Spent this morning at the GWR at Toddington, 
> and photographed Black Prince with its owner David Shepherd, unfortunately 
> the fly past by the Battle of Britain memorial flight was cancelled due to 
> very high winds. Regards Phil
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 9:19:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] The Glory of Steam 3
>
> And the most dangerous one!
>
> I was standing on a slippery bank about 5 feet from the beast as it 
> steamed past and was nearly deafened as it whistled before entering the 
> tunnel just outside Grosmont.? I remember the day well, I left a whole bag 
> full of Leicas and lenses on a bench and forgot all about them until a 
> bloke hurried after me and said "Excuse me, are these your cameras?". The 
> next hour was spent plying him with the excellent real ales at the Station 
> Hotel in Grosmont.
>
> Thanks for looking and commenting
>
> Best from Hannover,
> Douglas
>
> Ric Carter wrote:
>? 
>> this is the one for me
>>
>> ric
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>>
>> On Aug 19, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote:
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>>? ? 
>>> a 4MT in BR green (it is old enough to smoke)
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>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Transport/Railways/NYMR/NYMR_4MT_Grosmont.jpg.html
>>>  
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