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Re: [OM] IMG: Insects on Flowers

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Insects on Flowers
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:29:29 -0700
On 8/28/2011 1:52 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I like both of them.  But, like a previous one on the orange Cosmos
> flower, busy bee seems to have a color balance problem with the orange
> dominating everything.  I worked a couple minutes on the previous one to
> see if I could make it look better but couldn't.  Never did figure out
> what's wrong with it other than my eyes.

The major problem is considerable clipping in the red channel. The image 
doesn't look all that bright, so clipping may 
not immediately come to mind, but it's sure there.

Our eyes know when something like that is off, even if our brains don't know 
why. The colors in the flower are 
flattened, with little natural variation in brightness. It can be largely 
recovered with the Highlight tool in PS. Color 
looks much more natural, although probably not quite what an unclipped image 
would show. 
<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Nichols/Busy_Bee_001.htm>

Just correcting the blocked red channel brought the bee to much more natural 
colors, but I also adjusted it individually 
to help it stand out and look 'bee' color.

Bee Moose
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