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09-APR-2005 alexeig

Ticket to the sky *


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alexeig17-Apr-2005 14:16
I agree, Ed about washed out colors of flags, but ... I upped the saturation already for about +20. The flags were very strongly backlit, this was shot almost against the sun
Canon DSLR Challenge14-Apr-2005 01:07
Very nice moody sky...(*) do the flags demand something other than backlighting (washed out)? -Ed Hahn
alexeig13-Apr-2005 21:22
Thanks for the tip, Olaf. Here is another attempt where I used the selection tool described by Roumen. It was not that simple anyway and I ended up cloning the neighboring sky to the flags on the copy of background and only after that the halos were gone. Lots of work which I believe only sellable images merit and this one is not

How is it now?
Guest 12-Apr-2005 21:37
Still noticable and distracting. Maybe this could be helpful? - exept in your case you don't want to blur but instead sharpen, if I understand correctly. Anyway look at Roumens very helpful comment here (Date: 27-Nov-2004 20:18), especially click on the "here"-link he provides:http://www.pbase.com/cslr_challenge/image/36743581
alexeig12-Apr-2005 21:21
I tried to address halos and specks, how is it now?
Mikel Featherston12-Apr-2005 00:33
So the horizontal streaking is not a post-processing effect? Funky.
alexeig11-Apr-2005 20:21
Many thanks for your comment, Victor. Yes, now I see some dust specks too. Softness around the flags appeared as follows. I tried to bring the local contrast of the sky and clouds to what I have seen, unprocessed frame came out considerably softer. To do this I applied a fairly strong dose of rough USM, around 100/50/2. This brings the contrast of the clouds to the level which approximates fairly well my original impression. BUT, it brings out the dust specks and creates white halos around flags. To fight these halos I deselected the areas of sky along the flags with feather 20 before applying the rough USM to the rest of the image. This eliminates white halos but creates the softer halos. Apparently, I have to repeat this process more carefully. Any suggestions are more than welcome
Canon DSLR Challenge11-Apr-2005 17:47
Looks like you have some sigificant dust on your sensor. Can you explain why the sky immediately surrounding the flags is softer than the rest? I find this to be quite distracting. If it's an artifact of something you were trying to do, let us know what it was you were trying, and maybe you can get some pointers on a better way. -- Victor