On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 06:38:54PM +0200, AlunFoto wrote: > Larry, > > I dunno... It's a photo that's pretty open to PP'ing. My immediate > reaction to your version is that it looks a bit too dull. > However I'm not sure if your friend's rendering is what I would have > preferred from the same starting point.
I like what she did to bring the clouds out. I also like the darker sky. She also sent me her photoshop file, so I hope to get a chance to figure out how to start from what she did, so I can use the filters she set up (whatever that means) and tweak it to my preferences. I really need to learn more about post processing, I'm still spending all of my time trying to achieve competence with the camera. Once I'm competent with the camera, I'll work on competence in post processing, then worry about getting "good" with the camera. > For one, I think the lightning looks far too yellow in her shot. Those > giant sparks have a brutal blue hue, and the diffusion by the Good point. > surrounding rain clouds wouldn't alter the colour that much. Secondly, > I would like to know the direction the camera was pointed in (N, S, E, > W), and how soon after sunset it was taken. This info relates to which > hue of blue the sky should have. I-10 was to my back, so I was facing North. Someone good with stars could pick out the constellations in the sky. I set up the "travel timezone" in the computer, and forgot to activate it, so the time is off by two hours in the EXIF. The properties: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/3790961517/meta/in/set-72157621826796513 say 00:32, so it was really 02:32. > > Straightening the horizon was a good move though... :-) > > Jostein > > 2009/8/5 Larry Colen <[email protected]>: > > My friend Candice saw the night lightning shots I got about a month > > ago and told me to give her a copy of the raw files. > > > > Here's the difference between my quick and dirty in lightroom, and > > someone who knows what she's doing in photoshop: > > > > flickr gallery > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157621826796513/ > > > > Mine: > > http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2670/3790961517_792f82b65f_b.jpg > > > > Hers: > > http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2562/3790960979_00061ffd0b_b.jpg > > > > Yup, about a week late for the night photography PUG. > > > > lrc > > > > -- > > The first step is learning to take great photos, > > the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. > > Larry Colen [email protected] > > http://www.red4est.com/lrc > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > 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. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
