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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Incoming storm - Rocky Mountain National Park - May 2018
From: abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 19:51:32 -0700
References: <AF8B22B5-E311-4A71-8A2C-0EACCAF08C2B@twc.com> <915AB4BA-6C42-4F10-AC37-3098E7014750@twc.com>

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:
>> 
>> 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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