On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 13:11 -0700, Bob Dundon wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 18:45 +0200, Laurent Meunier wrote: > > [snip] > > > Does someone know why all my photos lack of contrast? > > I think it is just matter of setting the black & white points with a > curve, then playing with applying an "S" to the curve. > > I took your Raw file and played with it a bit. I'm far from an expert at > this, but here is the result from a quick setting of the end points and > a quick S to the curve: > > After adjusted curve in Rawstudio: > > http://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?image=imgp0611pefhd6.jpg > > Screenie of Rawstudio settings: > > http://img365.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotrawstudiohomeqe5.png > > What steps I used - 1) Right click on line in Curve window, select to > "Auto adjust curve ends"; 2) Left click (and hold) on the curve line at > a point, you can then drag that point. The screenshot image gives you an > idea of what points I selected to adjust the curve. > > IMHO, just auto setting the black & white points on the curve makes a > better looking image than bumping the contrast to 1,20 in Rawstudio. But > that could certainly just be a matter of individual preference. :) > > I'm sure you or others could do better, but I think the image I adjusted > looks better than either the dcraw or ufraw images you posted. The dcraw > image I am seeing is too yellow for my taste, the ufraw image too dark. > > To be fair, you should be able to make the same curve adjustments in > ufraw. > > Hope this is of some help Laurent. > > Bob >
Hi Bob, Yes, this helps me ! Thanks for trying with the S-curve. I never used this tools before, and I will now try to use it more :) But my problem is not isolated to this photo, I must set the black & white points (or bump contrast) for each photos. Maybe I am doing something wrong with my camera settings. Or maybe it is normal to set the black & white points for each photos. I'm a bit lost, photography is new to me. This is certainly off-topic, but do you know if my camera settings are wrong for this photo? The photo seems under-exposed, could this be the reason of my problem? -- Laurent Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Rawstudio-users mailing list [email protected] http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-users
