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Post by Neon Rosell II on Oct 22, 2010 11:19:21 GMT
Just had some spare time to mess around and checked-out what the target adjustment tool does! Magic!! It's one of the best tools for controlling Shadows and highlights!! And it does not degrade or produce added noise to the photo. And it's simple to use, just click on the icon then bring the cursor to the area you want adjusted and just move the cursor from left to right, see what it does to your histogram. Here is an old photo that has never been posted (probably I have another 20 with similar pose ;D) before, processed using this tool. Some of the highlights are blown on the top of the cask that can't be recovered. USM and NR on BG was also applied. This was just a hurried PP and could be improved, any C&C are welcome. Looks like I over did the highlight a bit and turn some grays to silver? How does this look in an IPS monitor? ;D  40D + 600 mm f4 IS, f6.3, 1/160 sec, ISO 400, Manual exposure, Tripod-Gimbal support, under natural light.  |
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Post by ppaaoolloo on Oct 22, 2010 11:42:09 GMT
Looks great. Just a tad of grain but it does not bother me! ;D
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Post by Romy Ocon on Oct 22, 2010 12:43:27 GMT
Amazing capture and excellent overall colors on my calibrated IPS, partner! However, I'd not focus on the excellent camera work, but rather on how the file was processed. The blacks are crushed and the whites are blown, both visually on my screen and by looking at the histogram. If working from RAW, you can recover much of the shadow details. As regards the highlights, I'm not sure how blown these are in the RAW file, most perhaps can be recovered during conversion. The good thing is the HLs are mostly the cask and the lit portion of the perch, so it's a breeze to select those and lower the luminance to somewhere around 245-252 on all channels. Here are screenshots of the crushed blacks and the blown whites. Even if you're using a crappy, uncalibrated display, you can easily check these by clicking on suspect shadow/HL areas and looking at the graphs. Crushed blacks:  Blown whites:  |
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Post by Neon Rosell II on Oct 22, 2010 12:56:03 GMT
Wow, Thanks Pao and Ka Mastah!! Woohoo something to play around with. Thanks for the cooking lessons again, Ka Mastah!! Will try to cook this differently. |
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Post by Bobby Kintanar on Oct 22, 2010 12:59:03 GMT
Ahihih, I'm not as much a perfectionist as Ka Mastah, but that photo looks extremely well on my, ahem, IPS Monitor! Hehehe. The highlights are blown out a bit though, but I can't say anything bad about the blacks. The tonal gradation on my new monitor seems to favor the blacks, actually. :-)
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Post by Romy Ocon on Oct 22, 2010 13:05:43 GMT
FWIW, the sharpening on the subject and NR on the BG are done extremely well.  |
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Post by Neon Rosell II on Oct 22, 2010 13:53:11 GMT
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Post by Romy Ocon on Oct 22, 2010 23:40:26 GMT
Amazing shadow recovery, partner..... this one now looks spot on on my LCD, both visually and via histograms. The details in the neck and other shadow areas have come alive, while the hot areas were under control. This version should print very nicely.
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Post by Neon Rosell II on Oct 23, 2010 4:47:56 GMT
Amazing shadow recovery, partner..... this one now looks spot on on my LCD, both visually and via histograms. The details in the neck and other shadow areas have come alive, while the hot areas were under control. This version should print very nicely. Wow!! Thanks Ka Mastah! It looks kinda washed out in my uncalibrated monitor but then again you should rely more on what the program tells than what you are seeing in an uncalibrated monitor. Hehe, I'll save that 12k by just asking the opinion of members who have IPS monitors. ;D |
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Post by ppaaoolloo on Oct 23, 2010 5:06:14 GMT
You have succeeded Neon. Great work. |
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Post by Romy Ocon on Oct 23, 2010 5:18:01 GMT
Wow!! Thanks Ka Mastah! It looks kinda washed out in my uncalibrated monitor but then again you should rely more on what the program tells than what you are seeing in an uncalibrated monitor. Well, there's still a bit of wiggle room to enrich the colors without killing the shadow details. On your last posted version, you can try a levels adjustment of 6, 1.03, 255 (or thereabouts, just don't touch the value of 255) in PS and see if you like it better. Even with this adjustment, the shadows are still ok. The HLs are of course unaffected. |
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