[Leica] PhotoKit Sharpener

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

Your are probably right, Peter, but this is the way I remember the golden
light in Spain.  I can tone it down some and probably will but, right now,
I like this one.  After I've gone through all 3000 photos from the trip,
I'll probably come back to a few that mean the most to me and work on
those.  As far as stock goes, the more vivid and improbable, the better it
sells ;-)

Tina


On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:

> Tina:  I experienced a variation on Phong's theme. The PhotoKit effect
> seems overcooked when compared to the original. But when I look at it on
> its own, it seems great. Then I look closely at the dome on the left, and
> it seems too over-etched, and the shadowed areas on the battlements in the
> foreground seem impossibly golden and too bright.  And my brain keeps
> vacillating between "beautiful" and "overdone."
>
> I remember something I read about Jonathan Tunick's orchestrations for the
> Sondheim musical "Follies": "It's not what the [1930s Broadway] band
> sounded like. It's what you think you remember the band sounded like."
>
> Part of the problem is that in such scenes, we're trying to recreate what
> we think we remember it looked like, not what our eyes, or the sensor,
> record on their own. This is the problem I have with HDR and HDR-like
> effects--when everything is too clear, too perfect or too vivid, a piece of
> me says "Can't be true."
>
> This is probably why I usually underdo such effects myself.
>
> --Peter
>
>
> > Tina,
> >
> > I had to go back and forth between the two before I could decide that,
> yes
> > it is an improvement.
> > Contrast and clarity are definitely improved, though the effect was a
> > little too much for me at first; too CGI so to speak.
> > After while, I seem to get used to it, then it's ok, even great.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> >
> > - Phong
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net>
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > PESO:
> > >
> > > I redid the HDR of Carmona and I applied the PhotoKit sharpener for
> web:
> > >
> > > http://www.pbase.com/**tinamanley/image/149450571<http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/149450571>
> > >
> > > Better?
> > >
> > > The original was here:
> > >
> > > http://www.pbase.com/**tinamanley/image/149421363<http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/149421363>
> > >
> > > C&C greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Tina
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tina Manley, ASMP
> > > www.tinamanley.com
> > >
>
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