Luminosity mask video tutorials
Oct 7, 2013 13:33:14 #
Tony Kuyper's website now has a series of video tutorials on luminosity masks and techniques. I don't know if anyone else has already posted this information. I've been using some of these techniques for a year or so now, and it has made image editing much easier and more subtle.
http://www.goodlight.us/writing/videos/videos-1.html
I hear all the arguments about getting it right in the camera, but I took a series of photos at an apple orchard the other day, and they were a perfect example of how post-processing could portray what I saw better than any exposure setting I could make with the camera. It was an overcast day, and exposing for the buildings and other scenic elements left me with a flat gray sky. It was no big deal to bring back some of the texture of the clouds and darker tones that would otherwise have been completely missing. Some of those photos can be seen at:
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-153028-1.html
Just compare the sky in the first shot (nothing done to enhance it) with the second and third shots. Before editing, the sky looked just as flat and dull as in the first, and there's no way I could have exposed for the sky and gotten decent exposure on the rest of the shots.
http://www.goodlight.us/writing/videos/videos-1.html
I hear all the arguments about getting it right in the camera, but I took a series of photos at an apple orchard the other day, and they were a perfect example of how post-processing could portray what I saw better than any exposure setting I could make with the camera. It was an overcast day, and exposing for the buildings and other scenic elements left me with a flat gray sky. It was no big deal to bring back some of the texture of the clouds and darker tones that would otherwise have been completely missing. Some of those photos can be seen at:
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-153028-1.html
Just compare the sky in the first shot (nothing done to enhance it) with the second and third shots. Before editing, the sky looked just as flat and dull as in the first, and there's no way I could have exposed for the sky and gotten decent exposure on the rest of the shots.
Oct 7, 2013 14:51:01 #
Oct 7, 2013 15:02:54 #
Rongnongno wrote:
These are very interesting videos.
There are only three sample videos, but as you say, they are interesting in their own right, and really illustrate what you can do. I found some of the examples on Kuyper's website overdone, but tastes differ, and the key point is that adjustments can be subtle because the masks vary in effect over a range of tones, rather than having relatively sharply defined borders, such as the Color Range... selection tool.
Oct 7, 2013 16:44:32 #
If you use layer 'blending if' the possibilities are infinite.
This is one of the least advertised feature yet one of the most powerful IF used properly otherwise, well, it all look like anything but what one intends...
This is one of the least advertised feature yet one of the most powerful IF used properly otherwise, well, it all look like anything but what one intends...
Oct 7, 2013 17:19:44 #
Shhhh! The "artists" will discover this, and who knows what the results will be?
;)
;)
Oct 7, 2013 21:45:59 #
Using one of the videos as a guide I modified an under exposed picture..
Saved for the web...
Saved for the web...
Oct 8, 2013 00:23:25 #
Rongnongno wrote:
Using one of the videos as a guide I modified an under exposed picture..
Heck of a difference, and totally believable. No haloes, no glaring colors. Have fun!
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