| Well, I prefer the bottom one myself, yes. But looking at the photos - the top two never had a chance, it looks like the flowers are blown out, and the exposure/contrast overall is a lot brighter at the start than the bottom.
Kudos to LZ for not blowing out the flowers with a straightforward conversion. The question is could you replicate the look using Elements by just reducing the exposure/contrast some when you open the RAW file? There seems to be a huge difference in the starting exposure values between the Elements and the LZ pics. |