Todays image is in honor of Steve....

[ggroess]

Veggies for everyone....

Greg

[sjordan93436]

Thanks.  You may find this hard to believe, I have 5,000 photos of artichokes...  but 43 on my laptop.

Here are two (of 43).

[sjordan93436]

oops

[mikemeister_admin]

My first image was,well,dark.No detail to the bushel basketsThen I remembered Zog's admonition and tried again.GregM

1 incandescent to daylight converter in CM library.
2 shadow/highlight in CS4
3 skin pin midtone cauc
4 Cm for lizzard tail boost at bottom of lightness channel and finding a neutral  that read 0,-1(on the curtain behind the woman in black)
5 slight sharpen

I've noticed a blue line between the grey and the white of the light fixture.

[ggroess]

Nice catch on the CM library file.  That gets you a long way to better color for this image...
Greg

[sjordan93436]

My attempt.  Problem is the mixed lighting.  the background is far too blue.  I used RGB color correction in CM (color blend) followed by lab correction (l channel only).  then I opened the green up in a luminosity blend.  Converted to LAB and boosted the colors (grrr.....  especially the blue).

I used the signs as neutrals.

[mikemeister_admin]

Wow GregM, that is an amazing transformation - I'll buy some of that fruit.

[mikemeister_admin]

Well, I'm getting quite depressed - my curving is obviously too rusty.

This is the best I could manage.
I started using Greg's idea of the incandescent to daylight converter in CM library, which put me on the right path
Then I lighten using an overlay method (I'm still using PS7, so do not the the s/h feature)
Re-entered CM to try and correct the casts in rgb, setting shadow, neutral and skin
Added some local contrast
before finally curving for tones in CM.

I seem to still have blue tints all over the place, especially in the darker tones and I seem to have blown some highlights.

Very interesting image - thanks GregG
Zog

[sjordan93436]

Pardon my ignorance...  CM library?  Where is that?

[mikemeister_admin]

here