Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Jonathan Wienke on September 15, 2007, 02:33:29 am
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Here's another from my 2004 excursion:
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C & C welcome, especially on the colors, I did something a bit different and am curious what you all think of it.
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Reminds me of some of my own experiments in applying a "Dragonizing" technique to landscapes. In general I think it's a pleasant change from some of the oversaturated stuff that's out there. What I don't think works well on this shot is the foreground. While in Calif Dreaming, there was (at least for me) sufficient foreground detail - here it looks like some aging defect on the print has eaten into the bottom part.
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Here's another from my 2004 excursion:
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C & C welcome, especially on the colors, I did something a bit different and am curious what you all think of it.
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I like the shot, but I'm more intrigued by "did something a bit different"! Do we get to know what?
Jeremy
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Basically I start with a color version, and process and sharpen normally. Then I duplicate the background layer, convert it to B&W, and do a bit of additional sharpening and curves to get the best possible B&W rendering of the image. Then I convert to LAB mode without flattening and hide the B&W layer. The last step is to apply the L channel of the B&W layer to the L channel of the color layer.
The tonality tweaks made during B&W conversion and processing get applied to the final color rendering, but without affecting hue or saturation. That's what gives the image the lazlo/dragon look.
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Basically I start with a color version, and process and sharpen normally. Then I duplicate the background layer, convert it to B&W, and do a bit of additional sharpening and curves to get the best possible B&W rendering of the image. Then I convert to LAB mode without flattening and hide the B&W layer. The last step is to apply the L channel of the B&W layer to the L channel of the color layer.
The tonality tweaks made during B&W conversion and processing get applied to the final color rendering, but without affecting hue or saturation. That's what gives the image the lazlo/dragon look.
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Fascinating - thanks. I suspect that's the kind of technique that those advocating a post-processing forum had in mind for discussion there.
Jeremy
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Actually the MF guys are more interested in model skin retouch techniques.
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Actually the MF guys are more interested in model skin retouch techniques.
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Yes, so I see. I'm not a pro; I take photographs to get pictures for my wall. I've not put up posters like those since I was a teenager.
De gustibus, however.
Jeremy