That's what find dark light colors does in the curves tool. It's a bit too aggressive, I think.
Kenneth Waller wrote: >The B+W version has the most acceptable color to me. The initial post had >the best composition, ergo try this B+W conversion on the original post! > >BTW - no where in your process do I see a setting of white & dark points. > >Kenneth Waller > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 3:30 PM >Subject: PESO -- Schooner Passes Falkners Light III (variations) > > > > >>Well one more different capture from the Schooner series, with three >>variations. After conversion to a Tiff, I used a moderate amount of >>noise reduction.. Then in Photoshop I tried something a little >>different, I tried the curves -> options and set [Find Dark and Light >>Colors] with [Snap Neutral Tones]. I'm not sure I like the results in >>color but it made the B&W conversion look a bit better. Well anyway. >>I'm interest in what people think. Due to the long distance there was a >>definite lack of contrast in the main subject of the image. Yes I know >>the horizon isn't exactly level. I'm going back to the original image >>to fix that before the ocean runs out, eventually... >> >>http://www.mindspring.com/~megazip/PESO_--_schoonerpassesfaulknersiii.html >> >>Note: As described. >> >>http://www.mindspring.com/~megazip/PESO_--_schoonerpassesfaulknersiiib&w.html >> >>Note: Starting with the Color version. I used a curves layer to brighten >>the mid tones, a second curves layer to impart a bit of a slight s curve >>on top of that, a Hue/Saturation layer to modify color response, (sort >>of a continuously variable color filter) and a second Hue/Saturation >>layer to simply remove all color, then a brightness/contrast layer to >>modify the overall contrast. >> >>http://www.mindspring.com/~megazip/PESO_--_schoonerpassesfaulknersiiis.html >> >>Note: From the B&W version converted to grey scale, I used a tritone >>method of sepia toning the image, using three different base colors for >>highlights, mid tones and shadows. Since the general consensus seemed >>to be that the last attempt was a bit heavy handed, probably because the >>highlights were too orange, I used a slightly different color for the >>highlights, it does look a bit more subtle, at least to my eye. >> >>Technical Data: >> >>Pentax *ist-Ds ISO 1600 @ 1/1250sec (Av) >>smc Pentax A 300mm f4 & SMC Pentax F 1.7x converter @ f11 >> >>-- >>Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. >> >>--Albert Einstein >> >> >> >>-- >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>[email protected] >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> > > > > -- Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. --Albert Einstein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
