Le dimanche 14 Mai 2006 02:27, Moose a écrit :
> Manuel Viet wrote:
> > I tried to
> > especially emulate Moose's techniques of postprocessing on the last 3.
>
> I'm flattered.
> The images give a wonderful sense of place.
Then, it's my turn to blush...
> I don't think the exposures are off in general. Somewhere in the process
> of film choice, development, processing and scanning, the contrast has
> gotten out of hand. So the middle tones are stretched out very thin and
> everything else is piled up at the ends of the histogram, sort of an
> inverse histogram. If exposures were off, everything would be piled up
> at one end or the other, not both.
Got it. That makes sense. I must check back everything, but I think my
negatives may be overcontrasted, because that's easier to enlarge. I think my
scanner don't like it at all, so now I'm facing a choice : should I keep
making "hard" negatives in the event of chemical processing of "THE" good
picture worth a FB sheet of paper, or should I start making "dull" negatives
because most of my production will anyway go through digital scanning ?
> This is harder to deal with in post than where the histogram is too
> narrow, but the whole range is there. Here, lots of highlight and shadow
> detail has simply gone to pure white and black. Nonetheless, the
> distribution of what is still there can be rearranged to present a more
> normal distribution of tonality.
> Here are some modest efforts to tame them. I couldn't do much for
> Clothilde, though <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/VietParis/>.
I'm voiceless. It's so much better, considering you used files I already
messed with. I understand you couldn't do much to the poor Clothilde, because
I made layers (one on the pilar, one around the figure and one for the rest),
and applied various contrast corrections and filters before blending those
layers together. I'm sure you noticed the square around the head when playing
with contrast ! I did the same with the base of the bastille column (and
moreover I corrected the geometry by enlarging the top of the picture). I'm
sure you could have done wonders with the original raw files.
Well, learning is a neverending journey, that's all the fun of it. Thank you
very much for this masterful demonstration. Now, I've got to check how your
curves compare to mine...
--
Manuel Viet
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