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Subject: [Leica] PhotoKit Sharpener
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:07:29 -0400
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You're NOT your!  I hate that.  I must be tired.

Tina


On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> 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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>
> --
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
>



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Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


In reply to: Message from pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] PhotoKit Sharpener)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] PhotoKit Sharpener)