Local Contrast Enhancement.
Attentive-to-Moose Piers
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From: Robert Adler [mailto:rgacpa@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 25 March 2013 17:58
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Poppy Bloom Redux
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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