On Sep 9, 2005, at 12:24 PM, Boris Liberman wrote:
http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=215716
Please try to click on the image so that it will open on total
black background - the way I intended it to be watched.
It's beautiful, Boris.
I opened it on the black background as you suggested and it looks
very nice, I love the quality of the light. I then became curious and
took a copy, removed all the bordering black, and put it on a white
background. To make the relative contrasts and tonalities look the
same to my eye with a white matte border, I had to add a Curves
adjustment that expanded and raised the the grayscale values in the
darker tonalities while compressing the brighter tonalities a little
bit. A gentle curve in Photoshop's Curves tool accomplished this ...
the histograms are different, but to the eye the result looks
virtually identical in the image itself.
This points out the importance of balancing photos for the
environment they are to be displayed in very clearly, I think. I
cobbled up this composite as an example to show the effect of matte
color and the adjustment/histograms:
http://homepage.mac.com/godders/BL-tower-backgrounds.jpg
Godfrey
