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H L
{K:11377} 2/5/2009
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Ian, it seems to me white balance also exposure is the cause of it...
Cheers,
Harry
I will try to post a sample later
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 4/20/2008
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Gidday steve.
I thought I'd avoid corporate tags and name my camera slartibardfarst. Slarti for short. I'm using a lot of of m42s and thought it sounded eastern european like praktica but have been assured by a czech friend that it doesn't.
It's a *istds if you want its proper name but I can't pronounce that.
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Steve Marshall
{K:645} 4/20/2008
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...and by the way, what on earth is s Slarti?
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Steve Marshall
{K:645} 4/20/2008
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My 2c worth... I think there's too much background intruding on what you want the viewer to look at, i.e. the 4 people in the foreground. Because it was shot at 28mm focal length it will always have very long DOF, even though you opened up to f2.4. If you stood back and used a medium telephoto (say 100-150mm), and opened THAT up as wide as it can go, the background would blur out beautifully and you'd have an entirely different look.
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H L
{K:11377} 4/4/2008
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Ian, I think you freak out:):):):):):):)You got great presentation of a very important moment, also colors are smooth and pleasant to the eye, Weddings are very hard work plus its very difficult task!!!!!
Great work my friend!!!
Harry
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 2/27/2008
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Ian, I think too that the green looks quite "pale" not for itself alone, but in combination to the rather soft appearance of the people in the front and the out of focus people on the background.
So, John's sharpening did bring a bettering in the sense of a better separation of the protagonists against the rest of the scene, but it also amplified the noise like for example on the back of the black jacket at the left, though I still find that this is a more than acceptable price to pay.
But in addition to John's work that bettered the image, I find the toning a bit troublesome. I see almost only pastels here and too much diffuse light, which is often used for such celebrations, but which also makes the atmosphere too "dreamy", too "untouchable", as the contrasts get too weak and the contours a bit fuzzy. It looks washed out then. The problem is that trying to correct it later on always tends to exaggerate the lights and the shadows, and then the image looks like solarized.
Though I am certainly no master of PS, here is what I did. First of all I corrected the color levels. This took away the bit of redish haze over the image and provided a bit more contrast. Then I burned a bit the people in the forground and I sharpend them a bit too for a better separation to the background and for getting some more details of their cloths, hair, and the like. It got a bit better for me but what do you think?
Cheers,
Nick
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 2/16/2008
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Thanks John. The sharpening is an unexpected improvement. I'll hopefully be able to use some in the batching.
I'll show my friend the changes in colour when I get him organised to see.
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John Bohner
{K:8368} 2/16/2008
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Okay, here is my cut at it below. Changes I made were to brighten the green in levels but not the curve. Same thing with blue. That got the bride's dress to white. No change to overall saturation. Unsharp mask of ~ 23 with a radius of 8 and 0 for the range. that bumps up "local micro contrast" Unsharp mask again of 80 with a radius of 0.5 and 0 for the range to do ordinary sharpness.
Free advice is worth what it costs.
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Roger Skinner
{K:81846} 2/13/2008
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nothin... stop freakin out
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Ian McIntosh
{K:42997} 2/13/2008
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Gosh even more saturation? I see what you mean about the green thankyou Visar I'll add that to my list of possible fixes (under supervision of someone less colour blind than me).
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absynthius .
{K:20748} 2/13/2008
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hey Ian,
well, my idea is there is nothing wrong with what you have captured here, in fact i think you have captured here a beautiful moment- i think it is not hard at all to see how much is going on out there, two sincere hugs, a boy trying to be part of it, another woman shooting with a camera, another one witnessing this happening with hands in his pocket, and other people too-- a whole scenery.
though, if we go into technicalities, i think i would like to see a bit of more sharpness and a higher saturation of green and that's about it.
all the best,
v.
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