Thanks Moose.
What's LCE?
Best,
Bob
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 3/24/2013 3:12 PM, usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >> I preferred the composition with the blue flower in the foreground but,
> on closer inspection (even at this small size), it appears that the blue
> flower is either out of focus or blurred by motion.
>
> The eagle eye was immediately objecting to that OOF blue flower, before
> any other sense of composition, etc. could
> decide what it thought about it.
>
> > Yep, that was the vertical element to which I was alluding. I thought
> > the tilt or motion had something to do with it though the spot of color
> > was very nice.
> > When I open the image in Photme, I see the red channel a smidge
> > clipped. Perhaps a few more details could be coaxed out of the orange.
>
> Exactly so! Although I didn't keep a copy of the original, I'm sure it
> didn't have such clipped red channel in the oranges.
>
> Certainly detail has clearly been lost, but more obvious at first glance
> is the color shift. When one channel clips, the
> balance of the three channels changes. Here, look at the difference
> between the color inside and outside of the poppies.
> They aren't just brighter in the parts in direct, high altitude sun, but a
> different color tone. Those poppies have very
> thin leaves, same color on each side, at any given point.
>
> What's been done to add some pop/life/energy has worked very well in all
> other ways. If I were doing that in PS, it
> would be LCE, then Curves, but beforehand, Some pulling down of top
> highlights, then a modest decrease in brightness
> and, if there are shadows details to retain, lower contrast, too.
>
> Then the LCE shouldn't clip the red highlights. Although I usually hit the
> brightness/contrast on the first try, I
> always check the histogram after LCE, and go back to adjust if necessary.
> I assume most of this could be done in LR, but
> I don't know what the equivalent sliders in LR may be.
>
> If things are too extreme, though, I might well select all the oranges and
> create a separate layer or series of layers
> for treating the oranges differently than the rest of the image. That
> might just work here, by simply keeping the 'pop'
> processing off the poppy blooms. I've done that with success on bright
> yellow-orange-red flowers in direct sun.
>
> This is getting really close to a great image, Bob.
>
> Orange Layered Moose
>
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