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(698) [2009-11-02 8:57] [+]Hello my friend,
You are at another level now, a level where technical details like too big of a contrast, bad light and such is just small stuff, easy to get over. Now you know how to correct photos, to make them look the way you want them to look like but my question is: Do you know what you really want?
For me this is the toughest question to answer. Now I think that getting to the destination is easy but finding which the destination is, that is hard.
Nowadays cameras get smarter and smarter, the glass is better and better, although not in the same pace. More and more megapixels of information are stored on the electronic chip, cropping can be done easily so it should be very easy to take a great photo, with a lot of “WOW!” factor. Is it? I wonder…
What makes the difference between the WOW photo and the rest of the bunch? Tough question, hard to find answer…
I`m still looking…
About this photo: the workshop does not represents the raw file converted to jpeg, which is totally different from what the camera would have provided if set to “Jpeg” ,not “Raw”.
The difference is that even the in-camera primitive software does some limited adjustments which can render a decent photo if the light is good enough. You will have a white point, a black point, even if those might be off in some cases.
The light you had when the photo was taken really sucked so the poor camera did the best it could…for a brainless device:)
The final product is very much improved no doubt about that.
One suggestion though: when boosting the color in Lab color mode take care of the presumably neutral areas of the photo (especially the clouds) because they might get more colorful than needed because of the overlayed a and b channels.
If the neutrals are not perfectly set in RGB and there is still a color shift when you go to Lab, that color shift will also be “improved”, meaning that it will get worse. A slightly blue cloud will get really blue and I don`t think this is what you see when you look at it using just your eyes…and your brain.
Great exercise, my friend!
Nelu
(698) [2009-10-11 10:44] Hi Alex,
This seem to be a controversial capture;to the rules, you don`t put the subject dead-center; yet, here for some reason it works. Maybe it is because the subject is so simple and clear..
The background works really well, with the complementary colors,blue and that kind of orange.
The note is excellent,so I think this is a great posting,overall.
Thanks for sharing,
Nelu
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(698) [2009-10-09 12:41] HDR...and not only:) Right,Michal?
They say that if something is to good to be real,than it`s not...
I really love the reflectio of the sky in that...lake,or flipped duplicate layer:)
OK, the final result matters and I find this to be a provoking experiment.
P.S.
I would have added some small ripples to that reflection,just for the sake of reality:)
Nelu
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(698) [2009-10-09 12:35] Hi Douglas,
Awesome composition and colors from a pure and...exotic place for some of us!
So green,so fresh, so...scottish:)
Congratulations!
Nelu
(698) [2009-10-09 7:55] [+]Hi Rew,
I don`t know why the hack am I attracted to the blurry region of the image instead being attracted to those tack-sharp beautiful eyes:)
Now seriously: is the blur real lens blur or is it helped a bit with some gaussian blur?
I know:f/2.8 but still, the transition from sharp to blur in the neck area is quite abrubt.
I don`t know, maybe I`m wrong...
Anyways, I really like the photo, the pose and the girl:)
Nelu
(698) [2009-10-08 14:42] Vai Vlad,
Nu stiai ca ma calca pe nervi pozele care ma fac sa ametesc?:)
WOW! Asta da imagine! De unde ai luat-o? Unde te aflai? Mergeai in jos sau in sus?
Pare foarte abrubt, fara discutie...
Excelent!
Nelu
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Well my friend, what could I add here?...
For me, the sky is OK, the tree sucks and the ground area is fine as brightness but too colorful to buy it. I simply refuse to see that much color in those dark areas.
"If everything is colorful, nothing is"...remember that?
I have two questions:
1. Why the heck would you go overboard with sharpening when this is one of the most disliked "mistakes" in post-processing??
2. Which is the subject of the photo? The tree?...Hmm, I think it would look better just a simple black silhouette, from a lower point of view.
Keep on trying!:)
Nelu