Yes, the problem is in the B&W rendering. Notice how the color version has modeling in the skin tones in chroma which has been flattened in the B&W ... this is a typical B&W rendering issue as the chroma renders to an indistinguishable intensity value where our eyes separate the chroma values easily.
G On Dec 11, 2006, at 5:55 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Thanks Godfrey. I'll look at it. It might be my conversion. The flash > is fairly minimal. At least half the light is ambient. I'm processing > these pics quite rapidly. Here's the color: > <http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5321426&size=lg> >> >> The skin tones seem just a little flat to me, typical of bounced >> flash. A little selective contrast adjustment would solve that >> nicely. >> >>> Pentax K10D, DA 16-45/4 at 20mm, f4.5 @ 1/25th, flash firing into >>> Lumiquest Omnibounce. >>> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5321423&size=lg -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

