Shac
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Stuart - thank you for sharing these great photographs (I also visited your site and found more superb shots). Besides their aesthetic merits, the and the 100% crop were "unfortunate" for me in that it means I must save up and sell stuff - for all the complaints one hears on the net - your shots clearly show what a fine camera this is (lenses as well of course). Was an sharpening applied?
Thanks again
David
Thanks again
David
Shac
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Ywenz - many thanks for showing us the gradient maps - must try it this weekend
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StuartR
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David -- Thanks for the compliments. I appreciate them. As for sharpening, I converted the negs in capture one, and the portrait ones had "soft look" sharpening with no noise reduction. Turning off the noise reduction really makes a difference in fine detail, so make sure it is not on for low-iso's. The web jpegs had a small amount of unsharp mask applied...something like 25-50% at .4 radius and 1 threshold. I did not apply any sharpening (other than the capture one sharpening) to the crop of the eyes.
ywenz
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Stuart: Apply everything as an adjustment layer so that none of the effects are destructive.
With regards to bring back shadow and highlight detail: After applying the gradient map layers, click on the image layer and then add a brightness/contrast layer... turn down both to about -12 to -15. Then add a curves layer. In the curves layer drag down the curve at the upper right corner to pull back highlight details. Drag up the curve at the bottom left corner to bring up shadow details. Drage up/down the curve in the middle to adjust the mid range however you want.
I did another version with less contrast:
With regards to bring back shadow and highlight detail: After applying the gradient map layers, click on the image layer and then add a brightness/contrast layer... turn down both to about -12 to -15. Then add a curves layer. In the curves layer drag down the curve at the upper right corner to pull back highlight details. Drag up the curve at the bottom left corner to bring up shadow details. Drage up/down the curve in the middle to adjust the mid range however you want.
I did another version with less contrast:
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StuartR
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Thanks ywenz, I will give that a try. That version is more to my taste for this type of photo. I like contrast (a lot...), but not as much in portraits of women.
pfogle
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ywenz - i just tried the gradient map myself - i didn't know about it before your post. How does it map the tones? It seems to give a similar result to using the channel mixer with 100% green input, no red or blue, and with quite a bit of contrast curve adjustment. It certainly gives better results than simple channel mixer or greyscale conversion, to my eye. Thanks for the tip!
This article (link) from Rob Galbraiths site is very interesting on the subject of getting a 'convincing' b/w rendition from digital - the photog in the feature talks about having to throw away a fair amount of shadow detail, to get a 'film like' look to his work. Really worth reading, IMHO.
This article (link) from Rob Galbraiths site is very interesting on the subject of getting a 'convincing' b/w rendition from digital - the photog in the feature talks about having to throw away a fair amount of shadow detail, to get a 'film like' look to his work. Really worth reading, IMHO.
Benjamin Marks
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You know, I have GOT to get me one of these cameras.
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