Edit this pic, please
Mar 29, 2020 16:51:53 #
yssirk123 wrote:
Thanks so much, Bill. Your trademark dramatic skies worked well here.Very nice picture Linda - thanks. Edited with Photoshop, Luminar 4, and Topaz.
Mar 29, 2020 17:20:37 #
Mar 29, 2020 17:24:50 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
The jpg is from the raw, so not even in-camera edits applied. A challenge for sure. The raw is in the dropbox link if you get really bored today 
I went there and for some reason it kept loading as a jpeg.
I'll just keep track of what others are doing - my yard had a visit from the area Rep of Big Bad Birdies (immature Cooper's Hawk) and I had the camera on burst - lots of "Hawk posed on fence." and "Hawk posed on bird bath." shots to filter through.
Mar 29, 2020 17:35:36 #
Love a little challenge Linda.
The original picture looked just a bit washed out. Wasn't sure what to do so I went to my I'm not sure what it will do software Photolemur 3. Open in this program and let it do its thing and saved. Right away it looked improved with added contrast and detail. Now opened in Photoshop and added high pass filter set to 2.5. Next made a merged layer and opened in the camera raw filter. Increased whites and blacks while watching the Histogram. As I moved the sliders I watched the white and black triangles. I moved till they just lit up then backed off a small amount. Saved image.
The original picture looked just a bit washed out. Wasn't sure what to do so I went to my I'm not sure what it will do software Photolemur 3. Open in this program and let it do its thing and saved. Right away it looked improved with added contrast and detail. Now opened in Photoshop and added high pass filter set to 2.5. Next made a merged layer and opened in the camera raw filter. Increased whites and blacks while watching the Histogram. As I moved the sliders I watched the white and black triangles. I moved till they just lit up then backed off a small amount. Saved image.
Mar 29, 2020 17:36:49 #
maryo wrote:
A very lovely, natural result. Many thanks for your participation, Mary!How's this. I used on1 photo raw 2020.
Mar 29, 2020 17:38:22 #
robertjerl wrote:
I commented in your Gallery topic. What a fantastic photo op you had!I went there and for some reason it kept loading as a jpeg.
I'll just keep track of what others are doing - my yard had a visit from the area Rep of Big Bad Birdies (immature Cooper's Hawk) and I had the camera on burst - lots of "Hawk posed on fence." and "Hawk posed on bird bath." shots to filter through.
I'll just keep track of what others are doing - my yard had a visit from the area Rep of Big Bad Birdies (immature Cooper's Hawk) and I had the camera on burst - lots of "Hawk posed on fence." and "Hawk posed on bird bath." shots to filter through.
Re the raw: Blenheim Orange got a b&w result when he opened in DPP because it was shot with a Canon camera and had a b&w picture style applied (I shot those in raw & jpg). I wonder if you're having a similar problem? I appreciate your trying!
Mar 29, 2020 17:40:48 #
Jim-Pops wrote:
Some excellent tips from your workflow, thank you Jim!Love a little challenge Linda. br The original pic... (show quote)
I am liking the wider view over my own crop. I bet you could clone out that building on the left - maybe add a few more trees? How about making it a month later with leaves on trees and more green grass? In other edits we have moved one of the horses too
Mar 29, 2020 17:52:40 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Some excellent tips from your workflow, thank you Jim!
I am liking the wider view over my own crop. I bet you could clone out that building on the left - maybe add a few more trees? How about making it a month later with leaves on trees and more green grass? In other edits we have moved one of the horses too
I am liking the wider view over my own crop. I bet you could clone out that building on the left - maybe add a few more trees? How about making it a month later with leaves on trees and more green grass? In other edits we have moved one of the horses too
Maybe I could try all those things but will have to be some other time. 🙄
Mar 29, 2020 18:23:20 #
Jim-Pops wrote:
Most of us will be here when you get back Maybe I could try all those things but will have to be some other time. 🙄
Mar 29, 2020 19:04:25 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
I commented in your Gallery topic. What a fantastic photo op you had!
Re the raw: Blenheim Orange got a b&w result when he opened in DPP because it was shot with a Canon camera and had a b&w picture style applied (I shot those in raw & jpg). I wonder if you're having a similar problem? I appreciate your trying!
Re the raw: Blenheim Orange got a b&w result when he opened in DPP because it was shot with a Canon camera and had a b&w picture style applied (I shot those in raw & jpg). I wonder if you're having a similar problem? I appreciate your trying!
OK, I figured out the "secret handshake" to download the CR2 version since up until this image of your's I never have done anything with Drop Box.
Opened in in PS 2020 and also used Camera RAW accessed through PS. Somewhat better but I found (by trial and error) that how good the colors look depends on the app I open it with. My best look is the old Picassa Photo Viewer. But the brown grass still has a tint I wish I could get rid of. I only consider myself to be a "hit and miss at PP" with an overall rating of fair at it. Also the top of the trees with the mountain for a backdrop I messed up-they are far too dark to match the rest of the tree.
Mar 29, 2020 19:30:39 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Thank you, Toby. I'm surprised to hear you mention being conservative because I remember so many of your brightly colored wide angle photos, along with some from your vintage lens.
This is another understated beauty that is probably more true to the colors of the day, with improved distant details. Good to see you, and thanks for sharing another version of Mount Adams in early spring.
This is another understated beauty that is probably more true to the colors of the day, with improved distant details. Good to see you, and thanks for sharing another version of Mount Adams in early spring.
I have different modes. If I am doing HDR I do like to go towards painterly and that includes high saturation, but in "straight" photographs with normal tonal distribution I find very saturated images somewhat garish and unnatural. For me, the lighting of a photograph has to be dramatic to support dramatic color and contrast, and this photo is in flat light. That's just my taste.
Mar 29, 2020 19:31:44 #
In the end, what I ended up with isn't much different than what you ended up with. I'm using an old version of LR, so YMMV.
I pulled the exposure down a bit, added a tad of clarity, and adjusted the white and black points. I cropped the white barn out on the left and cloned out the copse of trees on the right edge in the middle background. I went to Camera Calibration and kicked up the saturation on the blue channel slightly (possibly too much).
The snow looked yellow to me, so I added a graduated filter to the upper third and shifted the temperature toward the blue. Then I went back and backed off the saturation I just added... It may still be too much.
I also added a light vignette, to help focus the viewer's eye toward the center.
Compositionally, I find this picture challenging. The two foci are obviously the mountain and the horse, but they are both on the left of the picture. There is nothing to draw the eye from the horse to the mountain. To the contrary, the lines of the fences cut any movement between the two. And yet, I like the picture.
I pulled the exposure down a bit, added a tad of clarity, and adjusted the white and black points. I cropped the white barn out on the left and cloned out the copse of trees on the right edge in the middle background. I went to Camera Calibration and kicked up the saturation on the blue channel slightly (possibly too much).
The snow looked yellow to me, so I added a graduated filter to the upper third and shifted the temperature toward the blue. Then I went back and backed off the saturation I just added... It may still be too much.
I also added a light vignette, to help focus the viewer's eye toward the center.
Compositionally, I find this picture challenging. The two foci are obviously the mountain and the horse, but they are both on the left of the picture. There is nothing to draw the eye from the horse to the mountain. To the contrary, the lines of the fences cut any movement between the two. And yet, I like the picture.
Mar 29, 2020 19:54:08 #
robertjerl wrote:
You are a hard self-critic, Jerry OK, I figured out the "secret handshake"... (show quote)
But your points about the trees in particular are good to note. Many thanks for hanging in there!Mar 29, 2020 19:57:04 #
kymarto wrote:
This is a tremendously valuable point, Toby. I don't know if I've ever given conscious thought to it, so I'm grateful you mentioned!... For me, the lighting of a photograph has to be dramatic to support dramatic color and contrast, and this photo is in flat light. That's just my taste.
Mar 29, 2020 19:59:25 #
htbrown wrote:
Beautifully achieved. I'm becoming more appreciative of the less sharp versions of this - funny because I'm usually the first one to do edits that soften In the end, what I ended up with isn't much differ... (show quote)
Re composition, we have a couple of postings with one horse moved to the right. I'm liking that too!
Very nice to hear you enjoyed the photo and the challenge. Many thanks.
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