Thanks. Is that something easily done in CS or does it require some other
program/technique?
Ignorant-yet-dying-to-know Bob
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Local Contrast Enhancement.
>
> Attentive-to-Moose Piers
>
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> From: Robert Adler [mailto:rgacpa@xxxxxxxxx]
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> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Poppy Bloom Redux
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> 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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