Good advice, Marnie. Big cheers, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 5:24 PM Subject: Re: PESO Well, they ain't the Canadian Rookies & Thanks! > In a message dated 1/13/2008 1:13:54 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 4) I've also done a BW conversion, just for kicks. > > color > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6834549 > > BW > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6834554 > > Big Cheers, > Christine > > ========== > This is very much a color pic, so a B&W takes away too much. Definitely > should be in color. I think the desaturation helped make it look more > real, but I > also think you desaturated too much. Now, if you keep playing with it, it > gets into the matter of minute adjustments. I just suggest if you shoot > RAW, > that you have saturation on the convertor set low. If you shoot JPG set > the > saturation low too, you can always add more saturation later. > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/redone.jpg > > I desaturated by -18 (which may have been a tad too much, I'd probably > bump > it back up a notch or two, say +2 or +3), but mainly I selected and > lightened > the sky separately. The sky being so blue-blue is what most made it look > like a postcard. > > Some of the toy model look of the original is very desirable, because > some > of it is simply because you were high up and far away. > > Anyway, it is a good composition, Christine, and adjust or not adjust it > the > way you like. It really is a matter of personal preference. > > Sometimes one can get too greatly influenced by the list :-) -- always > please yourself first and foremost. > > HTH, Marnie aka Doe :-) > > --------------------------------------------- > Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. > > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
