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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
11-22-2018, 12:32 AM
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(I still feel really stupid about my first post in this thread, so please just pretend this is my first one, thanks... :o)
I THINK (and I may be completely wrong again), but anyway I think the problems with the trees is that when you increased the slope of the luminance curve to get the more interesting sky, you got a flatter curve for the bit of the graph that covers the light/shadow part of the trees. So they lost a lot of contrast.
I like to lift the shadows and enhance colours as well and I am with you on the "what would I like on my wall" aim, rather than strict realism. I use Lightroom, but I added Topaz adjust and clarity as plugins, and I find they help me a lot with pictures like this where I want a bit more kapow to the colours. Clarity is really good at tweaking the micro contrast in a way that maybe gave you the sky you wanted, but without losing the micro contrast in the twigs and leaves, and adjust is good at lifting the shadows without "flattening" the picture. I use both plugins without a lot of technical insight into how they work, but I get a lot out of it just playing around with the sliders and saving presets that happen to work for me.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
11-21-2018, 02:51 AM
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Hehe, well it turns out I was wrong anyway! :)
I sometimes do leave a bit of blue in the shadow in snow photos myself as well, and I agree that this can render the real feeling of a snowy landscape better than a totally "neutral" WB. After all we do refer to the blue side of the colour range as "cold colours", so what you say makes a lot of sense.
I guess it comes down to a matter of taste - number two was a bit over the top relative to my own preferences, and it ressembles what often happens when I try to pp my husband's jpgs. But then that's the beauty of raw I guess - you get to pick your own preferred level of enhancement of shadows and saturation and white balance.
Fun game, Norm, and sorry if I sounded arrogant or something - I didn't intend to, but I was just really proud of my own ability to tell the difference. Which, as it turns out, didn't actually exist! :D
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
11-20-2018, 02:10 PM
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This is an excellent demonstration of why I will never, ever go back to shooting jpg! :)
I feel sorry for the poor flattened tree and the poor blue shadows - being able to pp white balance and correct details of the exposure is really the key to good post processing, in my view.
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