Week 2: Exercise 8 - Temple

[leeharper_admin]

I love floating neutrals! What a fantastic feature  ;D

Again, as suggested I had at this both in RGB and Lab. This time around I really liked the RGB correction. I used plenty of hue clocks to help me pinpoint my two neutral points, and though I couldn't neutralise the stone I did get it neutral in the Lab a channel everywhere I measured, and slightly warm in the b channel - which made sense given the sunlight...

Having used the floating neutrals feature to set more shape into the image, I applied the adjustments, and returned to Photoshop. In Photoshop I took the image into Lab and painted (onto a layer set to color mode) on the blown out pillars in the foreground, and finished with a bit of sharpening.

Again, I'm off to check the solutions now  ;)

Apologies for posting these two images late, but as I said, I didn't want to let them slide. And I'm glad I didn't - I wouldn't have learnt about floating neutrals otherwise  :)

Cheers,
Lee.

[ggroess]

Nice...
Really ....

Only thing I can see I would change is going after the staircase in the dark shadow on the left..otherwise really well done....
Greg

[leeharper_admin]

Only thing I can see I would change is going after the staircase in the dark shadow

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Do you mean that the stairwell is too dark, or that you would have clipped the shadows more aggressively?

One thing that I picked up from the solution video was that - because I was working in RGB - I should have pinned the shadow rather than simply pull in the shadow threshold. I will go back and do that, and can attend to the stairwell when I do.

Thanks for the advice  :)
Lee.

[ggroess]

My problem with the stairwell is I know it's in there; and I know it can add to the image in a subtle way...

It is also a good idea to try these things as you have been so that you can file the technique away and use it some other time...

Greg