Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For me the number one feature in Photoshop is the fade feature. Command shift f. I wish I had them in real life. No mater what you do in ps you can fade back from it. To the place far far back that you should have been in the first place. Half the time its half the ways back. Even really dumb things I do in PS I find if I fade back 90 percent its really not a bad thing. And I'm real glad I did it. 10 percent of it. No more. to set a brush to 10 or 20 percent. Just hit the 1 or 2 key. To go back to full bore just hit the 0 key. Not command 0. Just 0. We're all worried we're "not artists". Just measly geek photographers. But with the fade factor (I sometimes call it the idiot control) and low brush settings we can end up smelling like rose! mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: Bob Adler <rgacpa@yahoo.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:12:24 -0700 (PDT) > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park > > Agree, and thanks Mark. I think not using the sharpening plugin greatly > reduced the "crunchiness" Geoff observed and other artifacts you observed > once > I took a closer look (I know I originally said I didn't see much > difference, > but I hadn't gone through them all). > Bob > > ?Bob Adler > Palo Alto, CA > http://www.raflexions.com > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 9:05:14 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park > > Geoff Zeiss glass and Hassy's are very much part of my work Flo over the > years I've been on the HUG for a dozen years the newer version now and I'm > used to seeing them on the Web from other people but when you look at your > monitor at a rock in a stream and it jumps up and bites your earlobe off > you > know you are looking at something else than normal sprinklings of unsharp > mask - and I was right. > Its easy to get overly enthused with this kind of stuff and that's why we > show are stuff to other people. > > > > mark@rabinergroup.com > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:10:45 +1000 >> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: RE: [Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park >> >> Mark, I only can observe any 'crunchiness' in the kiln interior two shots >> (which have lots of sharp edges). The first five especially are delicious >> medium format Velvia to my eye. It may be too that the original superb >> resolution (plus the contrasty medium) as well as the scanner all >> contribute >> to so much minute detail that it needs managing. That's a quality problem >> to >> have, right there. Did you notice how many of these are the full frame >> with >> no crop at all, too? Bob has the same sharpening regime as I do, so maybe >> that?s why it appeals to me! Anyhoo it is very much more subtle and >> superior >> to anything easily achieved with unsharp mask. When you get down to these >> low resolution web versions the effect is more distinct, certainly. >> Actually >> you can vary that too with choice of edge selection, opacity of that >> adjusting layer and original capture sharpening routine. Sort of involves >> a >> call on how much impact you want on the web versions too. Holding prints >> in >> your hands will always be a different story, as you know. >> >> Cheers >> Geoff >> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ >> >> -----Original Message----- >> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park >> >> It does look like instead of unsharp mask you are using a new third party >> high tech algorithm rich borrowed from the CGI folks SHARPENING FROM >> HELL!!! >> AND LOTS OF IT!!! For a whole new look. >> I'd move back from it by half or two thirds. >> And would love to see the stuff as well from the FP4. >> Again less jacked up. >> >> >> >> mark@rabinergroup.com >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >>> From: Bob Adler <rgacpa@yahoo.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:59:24 -0700 (PDT) >>> To: Leica Enthusiasts Group <leica@freelists.org>, Leica Users Group >>> <lug@leica-users.org> >>> Subject: [Leica] IMG: OT Equip - Lime Kiln Park >>> >>> After?Yosemite?in April/May, attention turned back to?Big Sur. About >> an?hour >>> south of the town?of Big Sur is a?California State Park, Lime Kiln. If >>> you >>> drive in and?walk down to the ocean, it's completely uninspiring.?The >> first >>> time we did that and just got back in the vehicle and continued on. >>> ? >>> Next time, on a tip from a co-worker, we went the other way, deep into a >>> beautiful redwood forest with at least 3 major streams. One ends at a 100 >> foot >>> high waterfall which I didn't shoot. It's not a regular waterfall with a >>> couple of torrents showering down; it has about 100 little falls that fan >> out >>> from the top so the bottom of the falls is as wide as the falls are high. >> Jim >>> Brick has some good shots of it, after climbing like a mountain goat >>> which >> I >>> wasn't about to do. >>> ? >>> Another stream goes up to the lime kilns. These are mammoth kilns built >>> in >> the >>> late 1800s to extract lime from the limestone. There are?3 of them, each >> about >>> 30 - 40 feet high; steel turrets falling apart in these beautiful >> overgrown >>> redwood forests. How they built these monstrosities way up on this hill >>> in >> the >>> middle of nowhere and how they got the lime stones up and resultant lime >> back >>> down is?beyond me. >>> ? >>> The third major stream is just a beautiful walk going nowhere; my kind of >>> place... >>> ? >>> http://www.raflexions.com/LKP >>> ? >>> Hope you enjoy?these. Certainly worth a walk?if you're ever in the area, >>> Bob >>> ? >>> P.S. - Tech stuff: Hasselblad (flex and 203), Velvia 50 and FP4 taken >>> with >>> various combinations of apprx. 40lbs of gear muled around on my back... >>> ?Bob Adler >>> Palo Alto, CA >>> http://www.raflexions.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information