Ken Norton wrote:
> Very interesting tonal separations in the wood. Good job keeping the
> gradients in place as sharpening and LCE usually blows wood grain to bits.
>
Thanks!
LCE is a bit like selenium, curare, digitalis, lomotil, and so on. At
the right, limited dose it's, healthy, even necessary, while too much is
lethal. Also, its effect on larger scale contrast may often be mitigated
without losing the useful effect of "lifting a veil".
I don't recall for sure, but I think the wood siding has received a
small dose of LCE, as well as a bit of curves and a dash of sharpening
after reduction to web size. Because I work with masks, the mix of
processes and degree of each on any given part of the image may, and
often does, vary.
I was particularly interested in keeping the character of the siding,
both because it comprises a lot of the image and because I liked the
contrast to the other use of wood in the totem. It also seemed likely
to me that the design and placement of the totem against that background
was probably a part of the artist's intention.
Moose
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