Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes I forgot opening in Raw as I almost always do my default has a reverse Vignetting darkening all sides and corners. And I'll adjust it to flavor. The other thing I do if I have an unusual cropping which I often do is the vignetting thing in raw wont work if you have an unusual shape: So once I open it in ps3 I hit lens correction filter which is under "Distort" appropriately enough (when you want things to not look distorted you go into the "distort" list, just like unsharp makes thing sharp). I assigned that a keyboard command and its one of the handful of "filters" which works in 16 bit right at the get go when things first open. Should not be a "filter" but an "Adjustment" if you ask me. Non retrofocal true wides often have anti Vignetting filters you can get at quite an expense. I'd buy one if they did the opposite! mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: Jeff Moore <jbm@jbm.org> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:22:29 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: More Fog & Light, two crops > > 2008-12-01-03:15:46 Mark Rabiner: >> If it was digital I'd go into mask mode in Photoshop and using the >> gradation >> tool select the top of the picture in a gradated fashion then go back into >> regular mode and darken the gradated top with either the curve tool >> command >> M or command L Levels. >> So the shot does not fall off the top. >> This is standard advice. >> I do it to most my images. >> As do lots of people. > > A thing I've found lots of images benefit from is: > > if you have unnecessarily bright corners, and the main subject is > reasonably far into the frame: > > in Lightroom, in the Vignettes section, in the Post-Crop subsection, > start dragging Amount to the left until you start to clearly see the > effect. Then back off until it stops being obvious, or even really > visible unless you had the original to compare it with. > > Voila! Some magical Noctilux-style vignetting to focus the eye back > toward the middle! > > And Leica have devoted so much R&D energy to creating lenses which > vignette as little as possible, and even to writing some electronic > vignette correction into camera firmware. Almost makes me feel > ungrateful. > > -Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information