Example 6 Statue of Liberty
I first used the HSB mode to work on this image. I wondered about the background sky. I worked on the premises that it was not blue, but possibly a washed-out grey.
Hue: 246; 251
Saturation: 51;68
Brightness: 66;80
I then tried the LAB mode and I preferred my result where I used the Saturation scale at 1.40.
Light Threshold: lightness input: 75; output: 100
Shadow Threshold: input: 8, output: 0
Then on the L curve I created a two point curve with input: 32 and output: 43 and the second one 60 and 85 respectively.
But then I compared the LAB with the HSB and found that I had more detail in the torch of the HSB version. The image was just a bit too dark. I increased the brightnes in CM on the HSB version and I like it now.
kessi
Statue of Liberty - kessi
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The adjustments Thomas made to your image increased the contrast which was lacking overall for the image that removed the "haze". How do you feel about the saturation?? To me it is a preference and very subjective.
In this class we tend to push saturation hard especially this week when you are asked to work in HSB. You are not required to over saturate but we tend to be "color flat" overall; and so in CM class we ask you to push it hard....
Greg
In this class we tend to push saturation hard especially this week when you are asked to work in HSB. You are not required to over saturate but we tend to be "color flat" overall; and so in CM class we ask you to push it hard....
Greg
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Not a criticism... more of a subjective question...
Personally, I prefer it to be very saturated but I have to be careful. There are many who think the web is full of over saturated images that are in dire need of removal.
We push color here because one of the artifacts of some of the corrections you do is a de-saturation of the image overall...so we want you to push the color to the point of over saturation and then back off to reality.
Greg
Personally, I prefer it to be very saturated but I have to be careful. There are many who think the web is full of over saturated images that are in dire need of removal.
We push color here because one of the artifacts of some of the corrections you do is a de-saturation of the image overall...so we want you to push the color to the point of over saturation and then back off to reality.
Greg
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Greg
Did not take it as a criticism. Only wanted to say that I hade some thought on the matter before sending picture.
I think saturation is more a personal issue/taste like many other things. There is often not a right or wrong.
My favourite pictures are still my old B&W pictures which I took of Jazz musicians. Maybe because I did all the work myself and it took some time. Take the photo with TRI-X film, choose a developer (D-76?), develop and enlarge the picture. Yes they are/were a bit grainy. But there was no colour distracting from the expression of the musicians!
Today I think there is sometimes too much colur but on the other hand I realy liked Velvia for nature photos so....
Thomas
Did not take it as a criticism. Only wanted to say that I hade some thought on the matter before sending picture.
I think saturation is more a personal issue/taste like many other things. There is often not a right or wrong.
My favourite pictures are still my old B&W pictures which I took of Jazz musicians. Maybe because I did all the work myself and it took some time. Take the photo with TRI-X film, choose a developer (D-76?), develop and enlarge the picture. Yes they are/were a bit grainy. But there was no colour distracting from the expression of the musicians!
Today I think there is sometimes too much colur but on the other hand I realy liked Velvia for nature photos so....
Thomas
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