Thanks, Bruce. I rendered this image first as a B&W and then decided to
go for the color. I did not render the Crooked Tree in color at all but
for the fun of it just did. I have a tenancy to get too garish and heavy
handed with these so I'm trying to keep things simple and stick with B&W
whenever possible (not that this will prevent garish and heavy handed
images....)
Anyhow - here are the alternate renderings -
http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php?blog=9
Apologies for the lack of formatting - that is a non public sub blog
that I never fully implemented.
The workflow I use is simple:
1. Adjust the camera white balance by setting it to custom and then
taking a reading off a green leaf. This will result in the images as
shot coming out with a reasonable tonality. AWB will give you a deep red
or magenta image that can verge on washing out the content of the image.
You can always adjust it later when opening the RAW file, but the green
white balance gives you a much better starting point.
2. Process the raw file. Most of these I do in Photomatix. Photomatix
can wind up enhancing noise and (with the K10d) banding so when that
happens I just use Photoshop / Camera Raw. The image will generally be a
very low contrast, mildly sepia toned and will usually need a good
degree of adjustment. For color shots I will push the saturation way up
and the image will be a heavy ochre tint. Obviously, for mono shot just
do a B&W conversion.
3. Load the image into Photoshop for final adjustment. For color images
I swap the red and blue channels and then just tap auto color balance -
that will produce the blue sky and pink foliage seen in these color
shots. (You can do the same thing in Photomatix by setting the color
temperature to a -2 to -4 setting.) For B&W it is just the usual B&W
adjustments similar to scanned B&W negs - i.e. a bit of work with the
curves to get the contrast right while not compressing tonal ranges.
Then it's just a matter of cropping, straightening up the horizon,
cloning out dust specks, etc....
That's it in a nutshell, though one can spend hours tweaking ACR or
Photomatix settings.
Mark
On 9/17/2014 11:36 AM, Bruce wrote:
I think it is pretty cool looking, but not as dramatic as the previous one. I
would really like to see this one converted before making a final comment. In
fact, it would be interesting to see the previous one before conversion.
I wouldn't mind hearing about the entire process - from capture point on - what
equipment, what kind of general processing, etc.
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Bruce
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On Sep 17, 2014, at 6:25 AM, Mark C <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/ferry-point-park
Another IR shot - not converted to B&W though. Comments welcome.
Mark
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