On 2/27/2021 6:59 AM, Wayne Shumaker wrote:
At 2/26/2021 11:27 PM, Floral wrote:
One indoors.<https://photos.app.goo.gl/4ysWY4bGaoiFn9aBA>
Two outdoors.<https://photos.app.goo.gl/HPuD2xVpWZXBAAWU8>
And<https://photos.app.goo.gl/t6K4P8phUCuv5BhT9>
Floral Moose
All great shots.
Thanks!
I have noticed recently that, to my eye, your photos have a darker sort of
tint. I'm curious, are you shooting these with -1 or -2 EV?
Since almost the beginning of my use of digicams, my default for daylight is -2/3 EV. But that's not really what you are
responding to..
or possibly difference in monitor calibration? or just post settings used?
Yup, post. It seems to me that there are always at least three versions of any
subject.
The way it looked to me (or looks to me in memory.)
The way it looked to the camera, as converted from Raw with defaults.
The way it feels to me.
The way I hope will convey to others how it feels to me
Lets take the Grape Hyacinths. At least with sun, from anywhere in the garden, even 20 ft. away, the blue stands out
against all the greens, browns, etc. Yet, as it comes out of LR/ACR, the blue is muted, and tends to get lost in the
other details.
So, I selected the flowers and applied LCE and Curves to them, which brightens them up a lot. Rather than go further in
that direction, but still wanting more separation from background, I lowered brightness and contrast in the rest of the
image.
The end result captures something in the direction of the way they felt to me, and I hope, not too far from the way they
look to me. They are still there, so I've checked.
This approach is pretty common to my photos of objects like these. I also not uncommonly selectively blur the
background. (And was doing it before iPhones did it.😁 )
Here's the other Hyacinth, showing steps. #2 is really hard to see any difference. I include it both because of our
recent posts and because it's important to the last step, to avoid grainy/artifacty stuff.
<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Process/Background%20Blur/Hyacinth.htm>
Another step-by-step, from Wednesday. Although it caught my eye, the straight out of camera photo is pretty blah. The
optical or cognitive DoF of my visual system doesn't see it like that; the background just isn't part of what I see,
unless I think about it. <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Process/Background%20Blur/5TinyCones.htm>
Selectively Fuzzy Moose
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