[Leica] IMG: Incoming storm - Rocky Mountain National Park - May 2018

[Sonny Carter]

Howard and Adam,
I’m a proponent of the haze filter in camera raw.  I use it often, even in close shot with lots of bokeh that needs tamed.   The sharpen filter too has made me almost stop using focus magic; it is more controllable unless you need local attention to an area on the image.

SonC



Sonny Carter
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> On May 15, 2018, at 9:51 PM, Adam Bridge via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks! I’ll give that a shot! Mucho thanks.
> 
> I greatly appreciate people playing with an image and seeing where it goes. I certainly appreciate the feedback!
> 
> Adam
> 
>> On 2018 May 15, at 7:19 PM, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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:
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>>> 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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