Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh I have no doubt at all! That is exactly why I didn't go there . btw LR4 will have brushes for all of that ;-)... (sorry Mark!) Back on the important actual content it sounds like the WB in the first is closer to what was there then (with the fog you mentioned). But a fine photograph like this deserves to be appreciated as a great print of course. I'll queue up for Volume two of your Wild Light book when it hits the presses. Cheers, Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman On 15 February 2012 07:12, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net < wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > > >>> > All of that might segue into some local adjustment PP discussion;-) but I > don't thik that's what you asking!. > <<< > > This photo, as re-worked, has 5 layers. The exposure was set to avoid > blowing out the highlights so the shadow areas had to be brought up quite a > bit. There are a few areas where the resulting noise was excessive (to my > taste) so I de-noised a layer and created a mask so that only the areas > where the noise was a problem would be de-noised. I processed another > layer to bring out the buffy color in the bird's crown, and created an > adjustment layer to brighten the bird's face. > > IIRC the lighting at the time was pretty close to full backlit sunlight, > just a little bit of fog diffusing the light. Not easy to work with. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > On 15 February 2012 02:57, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > > > > > On Feb 14, 2012, at 9:46 AM, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net wrote: > > > > > original: > > > > > > http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/ardeidae/L1640293.jpg > > > > > > re-processed: > > > > > > http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/ardeidae/caegre04.jpg > > > > Outstanding photograph! > > > > On my monitor the re-processed version looks too warm/red. > > Though it also has more brightness and sparkle (in the eye). > > It looks to me that the final version may fall between the two presented > > here. > > > > Regards, > > George Lottermoser > > george at imagist.com > > http://www.imagist.com > > http://www.imagist.com/blog > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com ? Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on > Microsoft? > Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >