Collin - I took the last one and fiddled with it a bit... I use ELements
(5.0) too....
HEre is what I did
ann adjusted "lightened shadows " 18%, decreased over all brightness
AFTER that by _12%.. then upped the contrast by +26 slightly cropped
righthand side to get that dark top right hand corner out.
I'm sending you my edit off list as an attachment --
It might be too light -- my monitor isn't realy calibrated and my eyes
have a hard time with darks l but easy enough to just darken it over all...
HOpe this helps
( actually prefer the color photo for this kind of scene, tho)
ann
Collin Brendemuehl wrote:
First experiment: color image.
Ignore the dust spot in the center left. yuk.
I'm using Elements 7.0.
The original color image
http://www.brendemuehl.net/_IGP7525_500.jpg
First attempt: not enough tonal range
http://www.brendemuehl.net/_IGP7525_500bw.jpg
Method: Adjust Color, Hue/Saturation, Edit: Reds, hue @ -180, slider @ 88/118
Second attempt: better tonal range and contrast
http://www.brendemuehl.net/_IGP7525_500bw2.jpg
Method: (as above, plus) @ b&w conversion, Red +8, Contrast + 37
#1 looks like most of what I see out there -- it's the tones of what your eye
catches. It's useful, but there's something about learning to see in b&w that
is different, and I guess it would apply to *how* one treats a neg just the same as
to how one treats a digital image. The second accomplishes the goal better --
giving emphasis to the center object in terms of both tonality and contrast.
But there is still much more work to be done.
Sincerely,
Collin Brendemuehl
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