Hi! > 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!)
I think the new versions are more interesting. The way you presented them there is immediate relation between dark trees and bright clouds. It is definitely going to rain and there is certain menace in the pictures... Well, at least this is how I see it. Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
