Well, I very much prefer version -a. Look at the water droplets on the in-focus rose (front petals). On -a you can see the highlights from the sky. In -b they just turn into pink (almost single color) blobs.
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there! (I hope to keep this mail short...) > > Two weekends ago during a rainy day I was out photographing. > Unfortunately I didn't got too many photos, and none that I'm too glad > of. However I found one that during post-processing made me wonder > about how visible or heavy my "retouches" are... > > Thus I would like some help in this matter: do you think I've > overdone the "fine touches"? > > http://data.volution.ro/ciprian/bdf753de58c560bc/747077f330c992ad-a.jpg > > http://data.volution.ro/ciprian/bdf753de58c560bc/747077f330c992ad-b.jpg > > For comparison I've included the two variants of the same photo > above: one obtained with a simple `dcraw` from the RAW (auto > white-balance, etc. plus resize), and the second one my "retouched" > variant in RawTherapee. However I won't say which is which just to > keep the experiment unbiased. (But just don't peek into the Exif > info.) :) > > Thanks, > Ciprian. > > > P.S.: I must note that by "post-processing" I mean just raw > conversion in RawTherapee with LAB touches, sharpening and noise > reduction. No tone-mapping and other "color" madness. > > -- > 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. -- Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. -- 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.
