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Subject: [Leica] Fwd: IMG: Incoming storm - Rocky Mountain National Park - May 2018
From: hlritter at twc.com (Howard L Ritter Jr)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 22:19:49 -0400
References: <AF8B22B5-E311-4A71-8A2C-0EACCAF08C2B@twc.com>

I just found that I could download the image, so I played around with 
de-haze on it in Camera Raw. I?m new to this aspect of Photoshop, and maybe 
I?m just a hayseed dazzled by the big city, but I?ve found that some images 
can be changed in remarkable (and sometimes good, often very bad) ways with 
de-haze. If you haven?t tried this ?filter? on this image, you might find 
that sliding the control around in the ~50% range will make the clouds look 
the way you saw them. The slider will take you from a whiteout at -100% to 
neutral at 0 to apocalyptic at 100%.

?Clarity? and ?Vibrance? have their own effects to contribute to a 
mind-boggling volume of phase space in image manipulation in Camera Raw. 
Sorry if I?m preaching to the choir.

?howard

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Incoming storm - Rocky Mountain National Park - 
> May 2018
> Date: May 15, 2018 at 22:00:15 EDT
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> 
> Well, it?s more than ?okay?, Adam! If you feel it?s missing something, I?m 
> not sure what it might be. As you?ve Photoshopped it, you?ve probably used 
> or considered using the de-haze function in Camera Raw. Obviously you 
> don?t want to get rid of the haze due to falling snow, but a light 
> application, if you haven?t done so already, might harden the contrast a 
> little and make the image pop a little. Of course, that might be the last 
> thing you want it to do?
> 
> But it?s a super image, very wall-worthy.
> 
> ?howard
> 
>> On May 15, 2018, at 18:52, Adam Bridge via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Something different:
>> 
>> <https://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/organize/Travel/2018-Rocky-Mountain-National-Park/i-fr66pDn>
>> 
>> Taken from Estes Park looking west to the Rockies.
>> 
>> I?ve struggled a bit with this one. I still can?t quite get the details 
>> in the clouds that I saw as I shot it. I find them very difficult.
>> 
>> This was converted from color into b&w in Photoshop, various editing in 
>> both.
>> 
>> Shot with Sony A7Riii with 70-200 F4 G OSS Sony lens at F14, hand held. 
>> This is stitched panorama of 4 exposures.
>> 
>> The actual image is 16378 x 5046.
>> 
>> I?d welcome comments on how to improve it. I feel it?s okay but I?m 
>> missing something.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Adam
>> 
>> 
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Replies: Reply from abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] IMG: Incoming storm - Rocky Mountain National Park - May 2018)
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