Re: PAW: Gray Day
It's not a scan. *istD on ***L Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/26/04 07:30PM i pushed it a fair bit in Photoshop CS and used a couple of other filters. what did you use to scan the original? if you scanned in 16-bit mode, i bet you could push the saturation more before funny effects happen. Herb - Original Message - From: Steve Desjardins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:05 PM Subject: Re: PAW: Gray Day There is surprisingly little color and the sky gets noisy quickly. If I really push the saturation, I get something artistic. If there was a little more detail, like a fence of something, this would make a good silhouette.
Re: PAW: Gray Day
Hi! SD Here's my first attempt at this (W. Robb embarrassed me into figuring SD out how to post this at WL ;-). Until I get Frontpage installed, I'm SD using Word to make a webpage. Unfortunately, it doesn't look as sharp SD on the web: SD http://home.wlu.edu/~desjardi/ I have only one word for this one - flat. The light was flat, but that was beyond your control probably. But the scene is also flat. Well, my wife does not fully agree with me here, but she admits that still there is certain degree of being flat here. I suppose 70 mm on *istD gives effective 105 mm. So perhaps that's the reason. Nonetheless, this shot is lacking something... Just my cents. Boris
Re: PAW: Gray Day
Hi! Oops. I suppose I was looking at the cropped and otherwise corrected version. I couldn't get to the original one... Just to make sure it is understood of which image I am rambling... Boris
Re: PAW: Gray Day
it's too bad you didn't shoot RAW, there is enough room to boost the saturation a lot without too much artifacting in the sky. even if there is, much of the resulting chroma noise can be removed with a good noise filter. send me the original and i'll see what i can do. Herb... - Original Message - From: Steve Desjardins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 8:15 AM Subject: Re: PAW: Gray Day It's not a scan. *istD on ***L
Re: PAW: Gray Day
There is surprisingly little color and the sky gets noisy quickly. If I really push the saturation, I get something artistic. If there was a little more detail, like a fence of something, this would make a good silhouette. Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/26/04 11:10AM Hello Steve, Try boosting saturation and see if any green pops on those trees. A touch of color would spark the picture a bit - me thinks. -- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, February 26, 2004, 7:40:09 AM, you wrote: SD OK. I fixed the sharpening and cropped: SD http://home.wlu.edu/~desjardi/ SD Steven Desjardins SD Department of Chemistry SD Washington and Lee University SD Lexington, VA 24450 SD (540) 458-8873 SD FAX: (540) 458-8878 SD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PAW: Gray Day
The use of an 18% grey card to adjust the apeture/shutter speed with the available light conditions will usually fix that. Anyone correct me if I'm wrong. Cheers, Alejandro Try boosting saturation and see if any green pops on those trees. A touch of color would spark the picture a bit - me thinks. -- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, February 26, 2004, 7:40:09 AM, you wrote: SD OK. I fixed the sharpening and cropped: SD http://home.wlu.edu/~desjardi/
Re: PAW: Gray Day
In a message dated 2/26/2004 8:12:45 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello Steve, Try boosting saturation and see if any green pops on those trees. A touch of color would spark the picture a bit - me thinks. -- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, February 26, 2004, 7:40:09 AM, you wrote: SD OK. I fixed the sharpening and cropped: SD http://home.wlu.edu/~desjardi/ SD Steven Desjardins Cropped too tight for me. I like seeing three trees. Just my personal opinion. I like Bruce's suggestion best. Some color contrast would be good. I'd try that on the uncropped version, then proceed with cropping from there if you think it needs it. It might even bring out a tinge of color in the weeds in the foreground. If the picture just had a tinge of contrasting color it would be more interesting and emphasize the grayness more. IMHO, Marnie aka Doe :-)
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Yeah, Even though it was my suggestion to crop out that evergreen on the right, now that I see the crop, I think I like it better in. And, my other suggestion about cropping out all that snow and twigs on the bottom kind of doesn't work either - I like the first one better, now that I see both. The snow gives balance against the dark trees. Tight like that, the trees overwhelm a bit. I think you were right the first time, Steve. My bad. Your good. On the plus side, now that it's sharpened better, I notice there's pretty snow on the branches of those pine trees, that I didn't see before. I like that very much. I hope you've learned something here: Next time, just ignore me... vbg cheers, frank The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. -J. Robert Oppenheimer From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cropped too tight for me. I like seeing three trees. Just my personal opinion. I like Bruce's suggestion best. Some color contrast would be good. I'd try that on the uncropped version, then proceed with cropping from there if you think it needs it. It might even bring out a tinge of color in the weeds in the foreground. If the picture just had a tinge of contrasting color it would be more interesting and emphasize the grayness more. IMHO, Marnie aka Doe :-) _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcommpgmarket=en-caRU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca
Re: PAW: Gray Day
i pushed it a fair bit in Photoshop CS and used a couple of other filters. what did you use to scan the original? if you scanned in 16-bit mode, i bet you could push the saturation more before funny effects happen. Herb - Original Message - From: Steve Desjardins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 4:05 PM Subject: Re: PAW: Gray Day There is surprisingly little color and the sky gets noisy quickly. If I really push the saturation, I get something artistic. If there was a little more detail, like a fence of something, this would make a good silhouette.
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Oops, forgot to include *ist D Sigma 24-70 at 70 f/9.5 1/350 iso 400 This is so much better than printing on the film edge. Steven Desjardins Department of Chemistry Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA 24450 (540) 458-8873 FAX: (540) 458-8878 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
