It's been a busy time in my house, so I'm only now seeing some 4 week old posts.
I hope Walter will forgive me if I muck about with his pic, but I felt that it was crying out for some help along the lines of the old "Workshop Over (a) Week", or WOW, concept we had going a few years back. Firstly, that blown sky together with the desaturated shadows just lacks punch, and no richness of visible detail will compensate for that. So I tweaked the levels to get back to a full histogram. The remainder of the edit is too elaborate to go into details, but my general method is to put a correction layer below the current best layer, and optimize one aspect only of the picture, disregarding the quality of any other area. Then I erase that aspect from the top layer so that the optimisation will reveal itself. I'll repeat that as many times as there are improvements to be made, eventually every area will have been optimised to its own best result, while being absolutely unaffected by work in any other area. Partway through this edit I was tempted to go down the "red shirt" path but instead decided that selective local colour retention was better. So I got rid of colour distractions such as the blue 'copters and the tan & beige colour scheme of the foreground spectator, and desaturated the overly vivid grass. Hope you like it, Walter, but if you feel violated by my intrusion upon your artistic prerogatives just say so and I'll retire the image (which BTW I've got well protected by dominant watermarks). See my revision at: http://picasaweb.google.com/FarrAnthony/WOW/photo?authkey=aGUWIoec0M0#5135874691508048610 regards, Anthony Farr On 29/10/2007, Walter Hamler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/newtmaker/B17-Orlando.jpg > > This was on display here over the weekend. I shot a bunch of DNG Raws > and used Lightroom to edit, print, etc. It was a yucky day but I was > fairly pleased with the result. > > Walt > > -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
