Well, I do that when it seems appropriate, but then subtle detail is lost. Honestly, I'm quite frustrated with this aspect of the camera/processing, although I'm sure it's as much my techniques as it is the dynamics of digital. Juan seems to get what I want in a lot of his work, and I've seen it in yours both on the web and in person. However, the example you posted clearly shows what I am trying to avoid. There's no detail in the darkest area of the image, and the area outlined in yellow shows a lot of noise compared to the clean black in the similar area of the other shoe. I'm looking for clean detail in zone 2, 3,and 4 and don't want to mask the noise with full black.
http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/IMGP3536b.jpg Shel > [Original Message] > From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > Hmm. I don't recall receiving any files, but it *has* been really > pretty busy lately and I might have missed them. > > Similar to Paul's effort, I find that for some images you just need > to pull the shadows down with a Levels/Curves adjustment layer to > push the noise into solid black. Here's an example ... I layered a > Levels correction and a Curves correction on the left side image, you > can compare it to the right hand one: > > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/IMGP3536.jpg > > Sometimes you can do the same with a simple S-curve adjustment using > the Curves tool. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
