Blackeye Susan III by ctfchallenge


18-JUL-2008	~Scott~

This is about as much midtones as I can get without totally trashing the image.

Canon EOS 5D
1/5s f/11.0 at 90.0mm iso100 full exif

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ctfchallenge		20-Jul-2008 12:36
Thanks everyone.... Hey Cat I'll give it a go early this week.... I'm doing "Shoot the Day" today and won't be able to get to it till then. Wish me luck. Thanks again ~Scott

ctfchallenge		19-Jul-2008 23:52
Very good! ~Scott~ It does have a lot of zones in the petals which can be explored further. Applying a curve adjustment layer with a mask just for the petals will yield good results. Pull the curve down for at least 1-2 F-stops. At present the histogram looks like a cup (low in the middle and high at both ends) representing hi-contrast photo. The above change will fill the cup and make it much more shallow, (will add missing pixels in zone 4-5-6. (Read thread for more info on zone system) -Cat

ctfchallenge		19-Jul-2008 16:50
I didn't see the original version, but this is looking quite nice to me Scott (especially with out friend Ansel in mind). Maybe not a lot of zones readily apparent, but they are there. Well done, and again- welcome. ~Brent

aam1234		19-Jul-2008 09:03
True, Doug. But it's would be nice to see more details there. I think.

ctfchallenge		19-Jul-2008 02:19
The intensity of the flower pedals is what I like about this picture Scott. Maybe not Adams like but I like it none the less. -COAmature

ctfchallenge		18-Jul-2008 23:56
thanks aam... I'm hopeful this one is not so intense. ~Scott~

aam1234		18-Jul-2008 21:02
Hi Scott, nice seeing you here. Just calibrated my monitor (have a couple of hundreds photos to process) and I think the flower is a bit too bright, if you ask me.

ctfchallenge		18-Jul-2008 20:12
This is harder than it looks because everyones monitor is so different, not like paper.

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