Thanks Attila and Boris - I did indeed shoot these in RAW format, and I have just gone back to the originals and re-worked them with minimum changes. For the record: Convert from RAW with 100% sharpness at 3008x2008 and 720 dpi., no change to exposure settings. The originals were shot with 1 stop under exposure dialled in. Resize to 800 pixels wide for the landscape shot, 600 for the portrait version, no sharpening or exposure adjustments, convert to 8bits per channel and save as jpegs at 96ppi, resampled using Bicubic. The results are on http://members.iinet.net.au/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/IMGP1500.jpg http://members.iinet.net.au/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/IMGP1501.jpg
and you are welcome to have a look at those, download them and experiment! I do agree that, in my original conversions, I probably made them too light, losing some of the drama of the originals, and also probably oversharpened them. But that was 4000 images ago, and I've learned a lot since then (well that's my excuse!) John Coyle Brisbane, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boros Attila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:09 PM Subject: Re: PESO - A cloud study > Hello John, > > I think it has a lot of potential, and I also would like to see some > darkening beneath the cloud as Rick said. I tried to make a quick > adjustment to show what I'm talking about > http://ns.atn.ro/~attila/cloud.jpg > > Did you shot this in RAW format? I would try to bring out as much > highlight detail as possible, even at the expense of loosing shadow > detail. Those clouds are fascinating. > > -- > Attila > > > Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 8:02:29 AM, you wrote: > > JC> Taken last year, but I was reminded of it as this year's first big one > JC> arrived! > > JC> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5211185 > > JC> On my monitor, the photo.net image looked a little too pale - but then > as I > JC> adjust my viewing angle it looks OK! > > JC> Comments welcome - good or bad. > > JC> John Coyle > JC> Praxis Data Solutions (www.epraxisdata.com) > JC> Brisbane, Australia > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
