Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You're NOT your! I hate that. I must be tired. Tina On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > Your are probably right, Peter, but this is the way I remember the golden > light in Spain. I can tone it down some and probably will but, right now, > I like this one. After I've gone through all 3000 photos from the trip, > I'll probably come back to a few that mean the most to me and work on > those. As far as stock goes, the more vivid and improbable, the better it > sells ;-) > > Tina > > > On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> > wrote: > >> Tina: I experienced a variation on Phong's theme. The PhotoKit effect >> seems overcooked when compared to the original. But when I look at it on >> its own, it seems great. Then I look closely at the dome on the left, and >> it seems too over-etched, and the shadowed areas on the battlements in the >> foreground seem impossibly golden and too bright. And my brain keeps >> vacillating between "beautiful" and "overdone." >> >> I remember something I read about Jonathan Tunick's orchestrations for >> the Sondheim musical "Follies": "It's not what the [1930s Broadway] band >> sounded like. It's what you think you remember the band sounded like." >> >> Part of the problem is that in such scenes, we're trying to recreate what >> we think we remember it looked like, not what our eyes, or the sensor, >> record on their own. This is the problem I have with HDR and HDR-like >> effects--when everything is too clear, too perfect or too vivid, a piece >> of >> me says "Can't be true." >> >> This is probably why I usually underdo such effects myself. >> >> --Peter >> >> >> > Tina, >> > >> > I had to go back and forth between the two before I could decide that, >> yes >> > it is an improvement. >> > Contrast and clarity are definitely improved, though the effect was a >> > little too much for me at first; too CGI so to speak. >> > After while, I seem to get used to it, then it's ok, even great. >> > >> > Hope that helps, >> > >> > - Phong >> > >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> >> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > PESO: >> > > >> > > I redid the HDR of Carmona and I applied the PhotoKit sharpener for >> web: >> > > >> > > http://www.pbase.com/**tinamanley/image/149450571<http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/149450571> >> > > >> > > Better? >> > > >> > > The original was here: >> > > >> > > http://www.pbase.com/**tinamanley/image/149421363<http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/149421363> >> > > >> > > C&C greatly appreciated. >> > > >> > > Tina >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Tina Manley, ASMP >> > > www.tinamanley.com >> > > >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See >> http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for >> more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com