On Sun, Jul 1, 2012, at 09:12 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 7/1/2012 8:05 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Moose wrote:
> >
> >> The moon, as seen through Earth's atmosphere IS low contrast - the range
> >> from darkest to lightest tones is rather small.
> >> The histogram looks like a rocky island in the sea.
> >>
> >> Shoot Raw, and 16 bits allows nice spreading across the whole range.
> >> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Tech/Sigma600%20and_Meade1000&image=_MG_6617croof2.jpg>
> > No clipping of the points?
>
> Not if you watch what you're doing. Using Levels, it's easy to simply
> pull the ends of the histogram in without
> clipping. The posted image goes farther than that, but I check the histo
> regularly as I work.
If you use LCE fairly regularly, do you "pull the ends" toward the end
of the process, at the beginning, couple times throughout the process?
> Sometimes, for example, LCE will blow the ends. If it's right for the
> rest, but blows the highlights, I select the blown
> areas (An Action I set up long ago.) and make a mask layer that lets
> those areas of the pre-LCE layer show through.
> Works very nicely on most instances.
May I ask how you developed this action? I guess maybe I am asking
this: What are the steps?
Thanks.
Joel W.
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