Music Department Chair, Livingstone College

--Lannie

I should have corrected for the tungsten lighting.  The colors are just not accurate.  Sorry.

I really need to color correct the entire folder, but I have been putting that off for a long time.

--Lannie

Lannie, it is the 'third" eye that I particularly like here, the hidden message behind every speech. Otherwise, forceful, focused, an interesting portrait, thank you.  

Thank you, John.

I have reloaded a color-corrected version, which should appear sometime day (or whenever the PN system refreshes).  Of course, without the subject right in front of me, I will not be able to confirm that it is perfectly corrected for color--and I sincerely doubt that it will be. 

--Lannie

Landrum,

Perhaps it is easier than you think to get color balance. I did this one by using Photoshop CS3 Bridge.  I clicked default, auto, white balance - auto, recovery 60 (until the highlight warning goes out) and it looks pretty reasonable.  The shirt looks white, his teeth look white and the whites of his eyes seem OK.  You could tweak little things from there.

Jerry

He is light-skinned African-American, Jerry.  Thanks for trying.

--Lannie

My revised version will appear sometime this evening, I think.  It has been in the system since last night.  It will not be perfect, either.

--Lannie

Hi Lannie,

I agree with John's read on this image. It is the forcefulness felt in this capture that makes this so interesting  for myself.

As for the color balance, I was not there. This part of the review is about a choice of preference.

The entries could go on and on..............................................

The technical use of the Canon 100mm lens at F/2.8 was spot on.

Best Regards my friend, Mike

Thanks, Mike.  My version is not correct, either.  Jerry's version is too pink but otherwise is very close.

--Lannie

intense.  j

p.s.:  the noise isn't bad, considering the ISO.  I think the colour is about right.  the shirt shouldn't look perfectly white.  that would be unnatural.  (I probably saw the revised version, though.)

Hi Lannie,

Ok, here is my version. Always fun to play with color balance. I have 3472 other versions, too !!!

Best Regards my friend, Mike

Thanks, guys.  This gentleman does photograph very well, doesn't he?

I agree with what you said in your e-mail, Mike: when it absolutely, positively has to be done right, it needs to be processed with the subject sitting there during the color correction.

From memory I almost never get it right.  Then again, I am not a portrait photographer and rarely do more than these informal shots around campus made some years back--plus the occasional family shot.

But, no, none of the versions, including my now updated one on screen, is absolutely accurate--yet, for the lighting at the time, I think that it is very close.

Les once commented on one of my shots of a light-skinned African-American woman, and I had to tell him that not all of us are melanin-deprived mutants who require more pink. 

--Lannie

Hi Lannie,

Most likely, anyone that was there or missed this presentation would have enjoyed your image no matter what the absolute color balance should be.

I have old BW faded and discolored photographs from times before I was born. Their meaning to me is that other value of photography................

Best Regards my friend, Mike

Thanks, Mike.  Notice also John's reference to the "third eye," which in this case is quite literal: look at the bottom of the tie.

--Lannie