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| Group |
Round |
C/R |
Comment |
Date |
Image |
| 11 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Yes, this is a tricky high contrast situation. I would add that this is somewhat often true to some extent for a majority of outdoor shots, unless it's a cloudy day. The way I tend to naturally remedy this is to most often push up the shadows and diminish the highlights on the image as a whole. I occasionally up the blacks but that most often degrades the image quality. More often I may even accentuate the black a little. Negative contrast also lightens the dark areas of the image and sometimes works.
I then tried selecting the shadows around the eyes with a Luminance range mask in Lightroom from which I subtracted the areas not directly around the eye with a brush. As you noticed, I also find that you can only do very subtle changes in dark areas if you want to keep it natural looking. I only sharpened and reduced noise with this selection, essentially. Upping the shadows and diminishing the highlights on the image as a whole is what worked best for me. I also selected the subject and then created a reverse selection to get the background and lowered the texture and clarity on it. I also lowered the highlights just a bit.
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Jul 10th |
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| 11 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
I downloaded the images to see better. I can get into the original more because of the subtle tri-color tones in the bottom two thirds. |
Jul 10th |
| 11 |
Jul 24 |
Reply |
I see where you are coming from. Nature photography is very demanding. |
Jul 7th |
| 11 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Jim, I would consider photoshopping the stalk out to preserve the beautiful rosette symmetry and maybe doing just a few small spot retouches. |
Jul 7th |
| 11 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Welcome to the group. Nice sharp subject. Very natural looking.
(That's an impressive camera! and monochrome?) No suggestions. |
Jul 7th |
| 11 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Having less of the ground to focus on the backlit tree on the layered clouds works for my taste. Looks great in B&W. Not a suggestion, though. You know what you want! |
Jul 7th |
| 11 |
Jul 24 |
Comment |
Very nice images with wonderful atmosphere. I like them a lot. The file is only 205K when downloaded so it's difficult to know how sharp the original is. (Have you submitted it in competition?) Great composition. No advice! I was on the fence about getting Tony Kuyper's plug-in. It's not the cost of the plug-in itself but the intellectual investment that made me not commit until now. He also has TK Magic Mixer Plugin for B&W. |
Jul 7th |
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