On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
On Mar 25, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
Well, it's a nice picture; you seem to have conquered the tonal-range
issues with the tools available. I suspect it might benefit from
punching up the greens, either with the
On Mar 26, 2011, at 5:40 AM, David J Brooks wrote:
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
On Mar 25, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
Well, it's a nice picture; you seem to have conquered the tonal-range
issues with the tools available. I suspect it might
Eventually, Larry will grow up and will start asking K-12 questions.
;-)
Igor
PS. I am at K-7 level. :-)
PPS. Larry, to answer seriously, besides the color boost that you've already
done, you can play with suppressing the highlights and bringing up the
shadows, decreasing the contrast,
I have my doubts.
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Subject: Re: lightroom and K-5 questions
Eventually, Larry will grow up
The dynamic range of the K-5 is amazing, but making use of it is not trivial.
Both yesterday and today, I got some photos of the river gorge, with some cloud
action going on in the background. When I shot them, I bracketed, but rather
than using photoshops HDR feature I fussed, fumbled and
If you are going to do HDR, Photoshop's implementation is decent. If
you use Photomatix, it does the same thing, but renders differently.
If you've ever seen an HDR with the crazy surface patterns, it's a
good bet that it was done in Photomatix.
It's a dark art to do it well. Whole books have
On Mar 25, 2011, at 5:19 PM, David Parsons wrote:
If you are going to do HDR, Photoshop's implementation is decent. If
you use Photomatix, it does the same thing, but renders differently.
If you've ever seen an HDR with the crazy surface patterns, it's a
good bet that it was done in
Well, it's a nice picture; you seem to have conquered the tonal-range
issues with the tools available. I suspect it might benefit from
punching up the greens, either with the vibrance control or maybe just
a nudge on the green slider. -T
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Larry Colen
Larry, I am just curious - when you metered the valley, were you metering the
trees or the river?
For me, the clouds and the river are the two dramatic elements, the trees are
just there as filler/framing. I suspect that if you had a 1° spot-meter reading
from the water, it would have given an
On Mar 25, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
Well, it's a nice picture; you seem to have conquered the tonal-range
issues with the tools available. I suspect it might benefit from
punching up the greens, either with the vibrance control or maybe just
a nudge on the green slider. -T
On Mar 25, 2011, at 7:55 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:
Larry, I am just curious - when you metered the valley, were you metering the
trees or the river?
Good question, I don't have a good answer. Once I had my composition, I just
hit the green button, and bracketed what it gave me. Basically,
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