Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > > > Better? > > > > The original was here: > > > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/149421363 > > > > C&C greatly appreciated. > > > > Tina > > > > -- > > Tina Manley, ASMP > > www.tinamanley.com > >