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[OM] Re: [photo] Lost at Firenze

Subject: [OM] Re: [photo] Lost at Firenze
From: Fernando Gonzalez Gentile <fgnzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:20:43 -0300
I bet so, but it's beyond my present photoshop skills ... shall try.

Fernando.

Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Perhaps it will be necessary to treat statue, buildings background and 
> sky on three separate layers.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
>   
>> Yes it does well with the statue, Chuck. But OTOH, it kills the red - 
>> orange - yellow hue which is characteristic of almost every Italian 
>> architecture I was able to see.
>> I did add a little blue to the sky, which is way burned out in the 16 
>> bit .tiff but faintly light blue in the Ektachrome .... fear this 4000ED 
>> is not working as it should.
>>
>> Fernando.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>     
>>> PhotoShop auto color correction seems to fix up the green bronze color 
>>> just fine.  Then increase the saturation about 25% and add some local 
>>> contrast enhancement (threshhold 0 with 50 pixel radius at 20%) and I 
>>> think you'll find it done or nearly so.  But you'll have to be the judge 
>>> of the final result.  Moose would probably add blue to the sky but I 
>>> haven't tried to do that.
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>>
>>> Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2115472632&size=l
>>>>
>>>> Hot summer morning wandering in Firenze, found this street view of the 
>>>> Duomo. I cannot really locate where did I make this photograph.
>>>>
>>>> Olympus OM 2n mounted on a tiny tripod at floor level, Zuiko MC 200mm 
>>>> f=1:4 @ f= 8, Auto mode, self timer.
>>>>
>>>> Ektachrome 100.
>>>>
>>>> Cropped to fit vertical - horizontal axis. Some USM, but could not 
>>>> rescue the green hue of the bronze statue. Advice welcome !
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Fernando.
>>>>         



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