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Canon EOS-40D
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 04/28/2007 07:40:43 AM · #1
I am intending this thread to be a sharing of technique only. Feel free to express your loathing of the result (I mean that), but please start a new thread of loathing. I am new to these skills and there are certainly far more qualified persons on site, but I will share whatever bits I can out of thankfulness for the gads I have received. I hope someone finds this useful.

And if you have any tips that might improve my results, or you have similar effects that you would like to discuss, have at.

Here is the starter photograph


Here, the resulting image


My attempt at vibrant processing…

Crop
Neat Image
Shadow/Highlight to add detail to shadows and reduce highlights a bit
Selective color layer to change the look of the yellows which were ugly in this photo
High Pass at 4 and using a vivid light mode on the layer (adds a lot of punch)
High Pass at 8 with color mode and a very low opacity to the layer
New soft light layer with Shadow/Highlight adjustments – low opacity layer
High pass with levels applied to the layer and a blend mode of color dodge
(again low opacity on the layer)
Some small burning on the concrete
Paste the original back into the piece and fade it in a bit
Vignette

Nikon D70
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 04/28/2007 08:35:59 AM · #2
i like what you did with the colours but around the guy, especially, looks a bit too sharp to my eye. may be decrease the sharpness a bit?
Canon EOS-300D Rebel
 04/28/2007 08:58:08 AM · #3
Originally posted by sevilduvarci:
i like what you did with the colours but around the guy, especially, looks a bit too sharp to my eye. may be decrease the sharpness a bit?


I concur.

Too much sharpening with Neat Image.

It seems to me if shooting in JPEG, you don't need a lot of sharpening. Haloing occurs, and at the very least, the sharpening looks obvious.

RAW seems to be a bit more forgiving since it is not a compressed file, so it seems to me that a bit more sharpening can be done. But, again, too much is obvious.
Canon EOS-40D
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 04/28/2007 09:18:29 AM · #4
too sharp to my eye
Yes, I agree.
(I forgot to add resize, smart sharpen, save-for-web to my process list.)
The extreme sharpening didn't come from NI, but from a pass of PS smart sharpen that I did right at the end. The bars behind him look grosly oversharp to me.

RAW seems to be a bit more forgiving
I did (and always) shoot in raw, but any grace it afforded me, I threw to the wind with this over-the-top processing.

Too, I think that my reintroduction of the original could have been masked and painted-in to control the opacity differently for different areas of the photo. As was, I simply added it back in total.



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