Show Us Your RAW Conversions, BEFORE And AFTER

Agreed... were you shooting through glass originally?

tigerotor77w wrote in post #9258748
Agreed... were you shooting through glass originally?

Yes. You guessed right.

yb98 wrote in post #9258689
http://bellik.free.fr …s/Post-Processing/010.jpg

Can you share how you did this?

Nice stuff, everybody -- please review the OP, especially the part about posting either a screen shot showing relative adjustments or a detailed breakdown!

Honestly, some of this stuff is very nice, and the purpose of this thread is to learn from and share with each other, so show us your stuff, folks!

obnoxiousmom wrote in post #9259233
Can you share how you did this?

Let me jump in. This can be done by increasing clarity, vibrance, saturation, and most importantly, blacks. I do it very often after taking pictures in a zoo.

obnoxiousmom wrote in post #9259233
Can you share how you did this?

Very cool! I can't wait to hear more of the details of how.

Sorry for the delay but I had to look in my archives to retrieve the conversion parameters.
I use DPP for my raw conversions and for this pic it's mainly black and white level adjustments and some curve modifications too.
Here are the screenshots of DPP.

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Thanks, yb98 -- nice job! I like how you pretty much made that glass disappear!

Great work and thanks for sharing!

yb98 wrote in post #9260442
Sorry for the delay but I had to look in my archives to retrieve the conversion parameters.
I use DPP for my raw conversions and for this pic it's mainly black and white level adjustments and some curve modifications too.
Here are the screenshots of DPP.

When you (and a previous poster) mentioned making black or white level adjustments, I know there's a "Blacks" slider in LR... what is the equivalent in DPP? You mean the adjustments in the histogram?

tigerotor77w wrote in post #9262114
When you (and a previous poster) mentioned making black or white level adjustments, I know there's a "Blacks" slider in LR... what is the equivalent in DPP? You mean the adjustments in the histogram?

Yes in the histogram, the left vertical line represent the black level and the right vertical line the white level. You can move these lines to adjust the level.

Ah, okay. I was used to different terminology; that makes sense.

That's a really decent shot, so feel free to decline, but would you be interested in hosting the RAW file for people to mess with? (yousendit or similar sites) I don't have any dirty windows *here*, and I think it'd be a good learning experience to try to "clean" a picture taken through one.

Again, if that's a prized possession feel free to decline. If you want to somehow put a giant watermark in it, that's fine, too.

I learned it in my experience. Make sure the animal is far from the fence or glass. Then mainly increases the blacks in the RAW files. The glass or the fence will be almost gone. For those otherwise great pictures, then you can go to PhotoShop for touchup in order to remove all the residual traces of the fence or glass. Here are some not-so-nice picture examples.


1. Here the glass is almost gone.

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^Thanks for that