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Published: 2008-10-18 11:08:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 296; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 0
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I was going to call it 'Line at Women's Restrooms' but then decided that it needed to be more universal.
Arches National Park, USA. Originally on B&W film, 1997.
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that woulda beena good title too
great shot my friend
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I really like the overall composition and the decision to show a bit more sky.
The only thing I do not like a bit are the halos around the rocks and a bit on the sky. I know many people use this effect, I'm probably a bit of anti-halo purist, so don't take me too serious : )
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Actually I agree with you, those halos are distracting. Normally I fiddle around with adjustments until they are not noticeable, and I had thought that was the case for this one as well. Unfortunately, it seems that they became more noticeable when I downsized to export to jpeg; I think human eye can more readily see such fine graduations when it is compressed into a smaller apparent area.
I will fiddle some more and update one of these days.
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Hey don't worry and please don't think I want to make something bad. It's not a drama \o/
For example I've got to fight halos in every of my own works, as I do handblend exposures.
So usually I do a Brightness/Contrast mask with soft brush and darken the big parts. Than I zoom in and use the burn tool at 4-5% and burn the midtones and highlights on the very close boarders : )
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No worries, I appreciate the constructive comments/critiques. Especially I happen to agree.
Do you use PS for that? Or Lightroom? I try to use LR as much as possible because of its nondestructive editing. Still have to do curves and smart sharpening (of film scans) in PS because LR can't do them as well.
These halos happened because I used some local corrections in LR and didn't clean up the feathered edges of the masks properly.
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In fact I do not use lightroom at all.
Ps does not destroy anything, if used wisely. Actually yeah, burning does by changing the amount of pixels. But a thin line on a very low strenght is not noticiable at all.
The only things I do in raw converters is white balance, luminance noise reduction and vignette correction. That's all.
Probably there is no obvious wrong or right, when it comes to workflow.
I decided against editing in lightroom, because it's too damn stubborn, when it comes to flexibility : (
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Amen to Lightroom's inflexibility. The other side of that coin is efficiency if you accept certain limitations. So my routine for these scans from films is to use both of them for the things that they are best at.
PS and LR have different kinds of 'undo'. PS has history of a limited (but adjustable) number of operations, and that is lost when you save and close the file. So basically, you need to save copies if you want to be able to go back to an earlier version. LR never actually changes the file on the disk, and has full history even if you close the file and reopen it later. In fact there is no 'save' command.
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