With my calibrated EIZO monitor, your image just look very good, I don't see
any adjustment necessary. Always trying to preserve/enhance all
(highlight/shadow) details makes the images look un-natural.
C.H.Ling
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From: "Andrew Fildes"
>I was concerned that this may have been me messing with the image and
> matters of personal taste. I find your last two with recovered shadow
> detail to be rather flat for my taste and I worried that I may have
> been using the Lightroom slider for blacks a bit too enthusiastically
> for yours. I do like to see real black in an image. The sun was
> bright that day and these white trunks do look very pale in life.
> I checked the original image and this is what the jpeg looks like
> with no fiddling whatsoever - looks like I hardly touched it in the
> previous.
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/109309451
> The detail on the trunk is there but is not very distinct in sunny
> conditions - these trees shed to white or grey new bark. The detail
> is also there in the shadows but on my Cinema display, your recovery
> of the details behind the trunk looks very flat, grey and
> underexposed. I may have gone too contrasty but I think you're too
> far the other way.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 18/02/2009, at 11:20 AM, Moose wrote:
>
>> Still, I can so easily imagine the new owner looking at Trunk and
>> concluding that a three shot bracket and HDR are necessary to capture
>> the whole dynamic range of the subject.
>>
>> Not so, even from the JPEG.
>> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Fildes/Trunk.htm>
>
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