Coombe Wood & Garden, Croydon
Pentax K7 with BG-4 Grip / Samyang 14mm f2.8 ED AS IF UMC / DA18-55mm f3.5-5.6 AL WR / SMC A28mm f2.8 / D FA 28-105mm / SMC F35-70 f3.5-4.5 / SMC A50mm f1.7 / Tamron AF70-300mm f4-5.6 Di LD macro / SMC M75-150mm f4.0 / Tamron Adaptall (CT-135) 135mm f2.8 / Asahi Takumar-A 2X tele-converter / Pentax AF-540FGZ (I & II) Flashes / Cactus RF60/X Flashes & V6/V6II Transceiver
Philip
John K
The ones in the open are OK though aren't they? I'll re-do the skys in the forect ones and you can see.
Colour balance has me confused a bit - varying reports, and I see them differently in Chrome & IE browsers on my working machine - in chrome they look OK as in my image viewer. On my work PC using XP & IE6 colours are iffy. Noe sure if its down to colour management or just different monitor profiles?
Pentax K7 with BG-4 Grip / Samyang 14mm f2.8 ED AS IF UMC / DA18-55mm f3.5-5.6 AL WR / SMC A28mm f2.8 / D FA 28-105mm / SMC F35-70 f3.5-4.5 / SMC A50mm f1.7 / Tamron AF70-300mm f4-5.6 Di LD macro / SMC M75-150mm f4.0 / Tamron Adaptall (CT-135) 135mm f2.8 / Asahi Takumar-A 2X tele-converter / Pentax AF-540FGZ (I & II) Flashes / Cactus RF60/X Flashes & V6/V6II Transceiver
IE6 is rather old now by the way, but on a work machine I guess you'll have little choice.
Thanks for the feedback - the skies should be easily sorted. They're not actually 'blended' or anything - they were whiteouts exposure-wise and I used the magig wand to select all pixels of tha tone, then in levels pulled down the red output, but I think in the forest ones it looks a bit too cyan ?
Yes its a sort of dirty cyan colour; and the edge of the selection is very obvious (to me). Using soft selection edges and accepting that the edges of the trees will be affected would probably look more natural. What's so wrong with white skies anyway? I'm happy with a white sky that includes just a little cloud detail. It looks more natural to me.
Do these look better ? I'm loath to remove all blue because then it just makes the huge DR too obvious.
Thanks for all the help !
Pentax K7 with BG-4 Grip / Samyang 14mm f2.8 ED AS IF UMC / DA18-55mm f3.5-5.6 AL WR / SMC A28mm f2.8 / D FA 28-105mm / SMC F35-70 f3.5-4.5 / SMC A50mm f1.7 / Tamron AF70-300mm f4-5.6 Di LD macro / SMC M75-150mm f4.0 / Tamron Adaptall (CT-135) 135mm f2.8 / Asahi Takumar-A 2X tele-converter / Pentax AF-540FGZ (I & II) Flashes / Cactus RF60/X Flashes & V6/V6II Transceiver
Would be interested to see the originals. I'm not sure why the obsession with re-creating DR which the camera seems to have failed to actually record at the time of capture. (If that makes any sense!)
I hope this is an improvement in all respects!
Thanks again for your impressions - Nigel
Pentax K7 with BG-4 Grip / Samyang 14mm f2.8 ED AS IF UMC / DA18-55mm f3.5-5.6 AL WR / SMC A28mm f2.8 / D FA 28-105mm / SMC F35-70 f3.5-4.5 / SMC A50mm f1.7 / Tamron AF70-300mm f4-5.6 Di LD macro / SMC M75-150mm f4.0 / Tamron Adaptall (CT-135) 135mm f2.8 / Asahi Takumar-A 2X tele-converter / Pentax AF-540FGZ (I & II) Flashes / Cactus RF60/X Flashes & V6/V6II Transceiver
These last ones still look a little too yellow on my monitor whereas the other various landscapes posted recently on the Gallery all look right, so I don't think it is my monitor setting.
Puzzling ?
Peter
Whenever I shoot images in woodland I invariably do two things:
1. Make sure they are a little under-exposed to avoid any blown highlights as it is always easier to bring out shadow details than to recover blown highlights
2. Reduce the yellows in post processing as they always tend to come out looking 'artificial' due to the light quality and colouration in woodland, when trees are in leaf
For what it's worth, I think Nigel is struggling a bit with these shots to correct issues that are present on the original exposures, mostly a slight over-exposure which cannot easily be reversed in post processing. To regain colour in the skies, a 'forced' look is the result.
I think the colour accuracy could easily be improved by an overall reduction in yellow saturation, whereas for the skies it might be worth going back and re-shooting the images in similar lighting, and reducing the exposure levels by 1/3 to 2/3 stops, or even a bit more, then processing to enhance shadow details.
Regards
David
Lenses: Pentax DA 10-17mm ED(IF) Fish Eye, Pentax DA 14mm f/2.8, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8, Pentax-A 28mm f/2.8, Sigma 30mm F1.4 EX DC, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.2, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.4, Pentax-FA 50mm f/1.4, Pentax-A 50mm f/1.7, Pentax DA* 50-135mm f/2.8, Sigma 135-400mm APO DG, and more ..
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K7 plus Samyang 14mm, had to handhold unfortunately.
Hope you enjoy seeing this great spot! All C & C gratefully taken
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