[Leica] IMG: Friday Flower

[Herbert Kanner]

Hi George,

I tried what you suggested. When I reduced red saturation enough to break up some of the solid central red, the periphery got a bit yellow, and playing with yellow parameters did not have much effect. I then started playing with magenta, which was a bit more successful, but I could not really resolve the central area without destroying the periphery. I thought at first I had an improved the  picture, but when I made a direct comparison between the original and the “improved” version, I did not feel it was improved enough to be worth posting. I  think there were so many spines (petals?) that the central area just looked solid.

There is a possibility that some of this might be an artifact of the Fuji camera. An expert at the Keeble and Shuchat department told me that Fuji did not use the Bayer mosaic  but some proprietary array of their own. Makes me wonder what happens when LR analyzes the RAW data.

Herb 


Herbert Kanner
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> On May 29, 2015, at 9:13 AM, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On May 29, 2015, at 12:34 AM, Herbert Kanner wrote:
> 
>> It’s not quite Friday here, but close enough.
>> 
>> A couple of years ago, our bottle brush had grown into an ugly tree and was cut back practically to the ground. It is finally in full bloom.
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010724.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010724.jpg.html>
> 
> amazing specimen
> 
> I don't see any separation between the spines
> which can be corrected by reducing the red saturation
> there's generally more than enough "red" information
> to allow for reducing saturation
> improving resolution
> and still maintaining plenty of "red" color
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser 
> 
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