post processing in Raw. c&c please

[Cruisn]

what was done right and what was done wrong. thanks guys.

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/cruisn/bluehousefinal.jpg

[canonnoob]

ive seen this photo before... lol ... its alittle dark on my monitor... and you definatly can make the blue pop alittle more..

[Cruisn]

were you there in spirit form? lol

[canonnoob]

yup.,.. i just didnt commment there..

[Cruisn]

I will try to get the blue to pop a little more

[Cruisn]

better???

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/cruisn/finaledit.jpg

[lonelyjew]

I was fine with the first, the second's blues are oversaturated to me and the whites are a bit blue as well.

[Walczak Photo]

I have to agree with lonelyjew in that I think the original was better. Instead of pushing up the blue saturation on the original, I think I might have just bumped up the over-all saturation or possibly just the contrast just a tad instead...the shot is good, it just needs a tich more pop. I do like the original...good lighting, interesting composition and wonderful symmetry.

Just my $.02 worth,
Jim

[caiguar]

the first one is ok. The only thing is that it looks flat. Ad a bit of contrast and clarity perhaps.

[Bill Boehme]

OK, so now we know who amongst us do not have their browsers set up for color management. ;)

Because there were a couple comments that said the image looked dull or flat, my first thought is that the image has AdobeRGB as its color profile and when viewed on a non color managed browser (and, additionally, for some cases, a monitor that is not calibrated), the results would look very faded. While using AdobeRGB is great for photo editing and printing and viewing on your own system, it is probably a lost cause to expect everybody else to also have a color managed workflow and color managed web browser. For that reason, before saving a version of the image to post on the web for others to view, it is necessary to convert the image profile to sRGB. In whatever image editing software that you are using, in order to keep the colors essentially the same, make certain that when changing the color profile, it is "converted" and not "assigned".

Looking at the image with a browser that has color management enabled, the image looks great and has great color and contrast. The edits went way over the top and the blue was almost fluorescent.

FWIW, I did verify that AdobeRGB is the color profile of the image.