Mastamarek, even the online picture is really too small to "get" what you've done -- ImageShack does have ways of linking larger photos, is there any way you could post larger sizes of both the Before and After shots?
Jun 02, 2010 16:57 | #2356 Mastamarek, even the online picture is really too small to "get" what you've done -- ImageShack does have ways of linking larger photos, is there any way you could post larger sizes of both the Before and After shots? Tony
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winters19 Senior Member  262 posts Likes: 2 Joined May 2010 Location: Pierceton, Indiana More info | untouched  Retouched w/ LIGHTROOM2  settings  Canon 7D -Sigma 30mm F1.4 EX DC- -Canon 28mm F2.8- -Canon 50mm F1.8-
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Jun 02, 2010 17:35 | #2358 Winters, very nice job of bringing some "pop" out of that gloomy-looking building! Tony
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winters19 Senior Member 262 posts Likes: 2 Joined May 2010 Location: Pierceton, Indiana More info | Jun 02, 2010 17:45 | #2359 tonylong wrote in post #10291113  Winters, very nice job of bringing some "pop" out of that gloomy-looking building! And, hey, could you post your Raw adjustments, please  ? See the thread intro!And, thanks for a nice contribution! Oops, ya, lemme' get them adjustments posted, thanx for the comments! Canon 7D -Sigma 30mm F1.4 EX DC- -Canon 28mm F2.8- -Canon 50mm F1.8-
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mathogre Goldmember  More info | Good evening! It's been a while since I've been in this thread, but I had one I thought might be interesting to share. I'd posted a photo in another thread, "a daub of lily," and it received a couple interesting comments. I thought I'd share what I did. I used my Rebel XSi to take the photo and edited it in Apple Aperture. In all it was a four step process. Here's the original thread:
After:
!. Take the photo. It was Monday May 31, a sunny hot day in Virginia, 15 miles west of DC. I was at Meadowlark Botanical Garden and walked all the way around a small pond that had water lilies in it. I wanted to get a good photo of one. I couldn't get very close to any, so the one in the before photo was probably the best of the group. It was sharp and not overexposed. I wouldn't normally mention this step except that I worked a lot to get this shot. 2. Crop to the opposite aspect ratio. While the composition was okay, the water lily was too small. Given its sharpness, I decided to crop it and go from portrait to landscape. 3. I converted to B&W. I used a green filter (100%). I tried many filters. Most of them had generally the same effect, except that blue brightened the water a lot as the sky was reflected in it. The green filter made the image consistently dark and dreary. 4. I removed B&W from the lily. I used a small "brush" and had it set to detect borders. I carefully erased the B&W from the lily. I zoomed to do this, though the tool was actually quite good about respecting borders. Three other minor changes were made to the image. I sharpened it, raising the intensity from 0.5 to 1.0. Highlights were raised from 0 to 20.48. Levels (RGB) were changed to 0.00, 0.58 and 0.95 from 0.0, 0.50, and 1.00. It's amazing what these tools can do today. Hope folks enjoy this! Graham
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dwarrenr Goldmember  1,650 posts Likes: 3 Joined Apr 2009 Location: Fairland, Indiana More info | Jun 03, 2010 06:59 | #2361 The before:  The After:  Settings:  Not much was done on the normal settings, did an auto adjustment and just a tad of sharpening. As you can see from the before shot, the landscape rocks were over exposed and very flat. So most adjustments was done with the graduated filter (two of them actually). The first was placed below the stone wall down to the bottom edge. I brought down the exposure and upped the contrast a bit. The second graduated filter was added from the bottom of the window down to the lower 1/3rd of so of the image. Again just brought down the exposure. I think (at least on my non-calibrated monitor) I over did it with saturation. Any CC would be very appreciated on what else I can do. Thanks! D. Warren Robison
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dwarrenr Goldmember 1,650 posts Likes: 3 Joined Apr 2009 Location: Fairland, Indiana More info | Jun 03, 2010 07:05 | #2362 tonylong wrote in post #10291113 Winters, very nice job of bringing some "pop" out of that gloomy-looking building! And, hey, could you post your Raw adjustments, please ? See the thread intro!And, thanks for a nice contribution! +1, ditto. Aged brick is always difficult for me to find the right sharpness, as old brick does not have many (if any) sharp edges to them. D. Warren Robison
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LuNoCa Hatchling 2 posts Joined Mar 2010 More info | First post here...
Aperture 3.0.3 + Viveza 2 + Silver Efex
Another one... original
Aperture 3.0.3 + Silver Efex
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CoolHandMatt Member  171 posts Joined Mar 2010 Location: Fort Worth, TX More info | Jun 03, 2010 10:41 | #2364  Permanent ban@winters Dont Forget to Check out www.CatchAClue.net
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kawboy613 Senior Member  860 posts Joined Oct 2009 Location: Pacific, Mo. More info | Jun 03, 2010 23:04 | #2365 Its been a while since i've put anything in here, so here' goe's another try...  
Tim
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CoolHandMatt Member 171 posts Joined Mar 2010 Location: Fort Worth, TX More info | Permanent ban Ok I threw every trick in the book at this one!  HOSTED PHOTO please log in to view hosted photos in full size. Dont Forget to Check out www.CatchAClue.net
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CoolHandMatt Member 171 posts Joined Mar 2010 Location: Fort Worth, TX More info | Permanent ban Here they are higher res (still a little compression due to imageshack etc) 
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Jun 05, 2010 13:37 | #2368 Thanks for the contributions, Matt! You brought out some nice tones in the After! Tony
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JeffreyO Member  182 posts Likes: 4 Joined Feb 2010 More info | I've been using tone mapping (not HDR) and then either fake HDR script in Gimp or just other stuff in Gimp to spiff it up.  HOSTED PHOTO please log in to view hosted photos in full size. XSi with grip, Sigma 18-55 f/3.5-5.6, Sigma 28-70 f/2.8, Canon 100 f/2.8 macro, old but great Canon 300 f/4 L, 430 EX II, Quantaray 900W, broken tripods, White Lightnings, many accessories--former pro film, quit, now back into it for fun
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Jun 06, 2010 11:53 | #2370 Jeffrey, thanks for the contribution, you got nice results! Please read the introductory post for this thread, though -- external editors (even if they are plug-ins) are outside the scope of this thread! Tony
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The only thing I would do is level the image (3 degrees CW or so), unless that is the look you are going after. My eye likes to see everything level.
