Thanks, Moose! I really appreciate your opinion and advice. I think you
are right about the skin tones and brilliant colors. I just need develop
enough self-confidence to trust my own memories! Always a problem. :-(
I'm taking a class in Curvemeister and it will, hopefully, teach me more
about adjusting colors and using layers - which I've never done.
Glad you are back!
Tina
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/29/2013 5:52 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> > Thanks, Brian. I continue to get comments that my photos are
> > over-saturated. I've stopped de-saturating by -30 but am still using
> -12. I
> > like them at full saturation but I may be the only one who saw the scenes
> > that way!
>
> I'm perpetually behind - and you post so many images. But I have been
> looking at most of them.
>
> I have been thinking much as Brian has. Then we were in a shop full of
> Guatemalan clothes last week. I really think you
> should go with your sense of what looks right. If you listen too much
> people who just aren't used to tropical sun on
> those almost absurdly bright colors, I think you sell your images a bit
> short.
>
> I've also been thinking about skin tones. There was a post a while ago of
> three women of different ages in good light.
> The youngest had beautiful skin, smooth and a lovely color. The eldest had
> rough looking skin, almost like it was
> grainier film just there, and of somewhat uneven color.
>
> I've been watching more closely since, and come to a couple of tentative
> conclusions. First, I believe you mentioned
> some time ago how hard the sun in on the locals' skin. Second, there is
> variation, if not from village to village, at
> least in different areas, in the ethnic mix of the people, and thus their
> skin tones. I know from personal experience
> that this is true in Mexico and Costa Rica.
>
> Relying on the opinion of mostly older, anglo men about the skin tones of
> people you have visited and lived with for
> decades seems to me questionable.
>
> I'm happy to, and have, comment on scanning, grain, overall color balance
> highlight compression/loss, and so on. And it
> seems clear that those and the similar comments of others here have helped
> you a great deal in improving your scanning
> and processing.
>
> Ask, sure. Listen, sure. But be true to your own sense of saturation and
> skin tones.
>
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, August 29, 2013, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Tina asked:
> >>
> >> Does anybody here use Curvemeister for color control? I'm experimenting
> >> with it:
> >>
> >> http://www.pbase.com/image/152033882
> >>
> >> C&C greatly appreciated.
> >> I'd never heard of Curvemeister before. However, this image and the two
> >> before it, are a significant improvement both as to image sharpness and
> >> colour rendition, from previous ones.
>
> This one certainly has lovely looking color, and the prior two are pretty
> nice, but they are all Ektachrome, which has
> generally given your best results in color and grain before.
>
> I'm not sure what Curvemeister does that PS doesn't, from a couple of
> reviews and the CM web site. One review blathers
> on about waiting minutes to see adjustment results in PS and PSE. Huh? My
> computer is getting long in the tooth, but I
> still adjust Curves, Levels, Hues, etc. watching the effects in real time
> on the image.
>
> Just a different interface, that may be easier for some folks?
> Possibly/probably I'm missing something. But I've read
> similar promo material for other plug-ins that have underwhelmed, or
> seriously disappointed, in use.
>
> If you have it, and find it easier to get the results you want with it,
> what's not to like?
>
> Moose D'Opinion
>
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