On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 02:50:04PM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: > On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 05:57:21AM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote: > >> Wow, some really delightful shots in there, Larry; especially from the > >> Big Sur and Death Valley sets. > >> > >> You really should spend some time with local contrast enhancement on > >> some of those landscapes to make the colour and contrast pop more. > >> They are very well framed but look a bit flat. > > > > Interesting thought. I had considered bumping up the contrast, but > > that made thepicture look a bit fake, silly me, I hadnt thought about just > > doing with the adjustment brush. > > Yes, applying contrast selectively, but what I really meant was using > the Lr Clarity slider, possibly using the adj brush.
I have used clarity lightly on a lot of those photos. > > If you have the Nik plugins you can use the Structure slider in > Viveza, applying it to specific things with the Control Points. Or the > Detail Extractor and/or the Pro Contrast filter in Color Efex Pro. > > Or in Ps you can use the Unsharp Mask with a large Radius (20+) and > smaller Amount (20-60) values. > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://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.
