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panoguy · 10-26-2013, 06:15 AM

This is one of the images in a gallery from a CNN article on the Red Star Line, showing one of five surviving passengers from this iconic steamship line:

When the lighting is bad (bright sunlight with shadows), and you recover the highlights and shadows from a raw file, please don't go for some "faux HDR" look that turns everything medium grey. I'm not even sure if the desaturation is intentional (to match the old photo being held up), or the result of someone ham-handedly trying to correct overly "blue" shadows! So sad for CNN...

VisualDarkness · 10-26-2013, 07:19 AM

Brrrrrrrrrrrr

k5astro · 10-26-2013, 07:35 AM

It seems that publications are getting more and more shoddy about what they publish. All sorts of crap is being published. Remember the horrible photos published of the US Olympic team at the last summer Olympics? No editorial oversight was used. Junk rags are the result.

reeftool · 10-31-2013, 08:10 AM

I see shots daily while reading news online and I am amazed at the poor quality. My grand kids do better with their cell phones. As for the PP, mostly it's extreme over sharpening and ugly artifacts.

10-26-2013, 06:15 AM	#1
panoguy Pentaxian Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Washington, D.C. Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 3,327	*How not* to process a photo for publication** This is one of the images in a gallery from a CNN article on the Red Star Line, showing one of five surviving passengers from this iconic steamship line: When the lighting is bad (bright sunlight with shadows), and you recover the highlights and shadows from a raw file, please don't go for some "faux HDR" look that turns everything medium grey. I'm not even sure if the desaturation is intentional (to match the old photo being held up), or the result of someone ham-handedly trying to correct overly "blue" shadows! So sad for CNN...

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10-26-2013, 07:19 AM	#2
VisualDarkness Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Uppsala, Sweden Photos: Gallery Posts: 4,439	Brrrrrrrrrrrr

10-26-2013, 07:35 AM	#3
k5astro Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Photos: Albums Posts: 387	It seems that publications are getting more and more shoddy about what they publish. All sorts of crap is being published. Remember the horrible photos published of the US Olympic team at the last summer Olympics? No editorial oversight was used. Junk rags are the result.

10-31-2013, 08:10 AM	#4
reeftool Pentaxian Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Upstate New York Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 9,555	I see shots daily while reading news online and I am amazed at the poor quality. My grand kids do better with their cell phones. As for the PP, mostly it's extreme over sharpening and ugly artifacts.

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