I think your title fits well Martin. Cool hues of evening and a delightful creamy pink bloom. Only thought would be if a vertical would enhance it more? Nice subtle shot!
anthony whitmo wrote:
Nice shot Martin I like the color of the rose and there's definitely NO bright light on this one
HI Anthony,
Wanted to do one in isolation and with no bright spots following your helpful advice.
Cheers,
Martin
Ant
Lil Judd wrote:
Lovely shot Martin
Lil
Glad you liked it Lil.
Martin
Genes Home wrote:
wonderful, it looks almos like a painting.
very well done.
Thanks Gene,
I thought it was a bit special myself and tried to create a special effect with it. Thanks for your nice comment.
Martin
Shasoc wrote:
Beautiful image, Martin.
Socrate
Thanks Socrate. Very pleased you liked it. I followed your formula to pp it. See below.
Martin
72chevelle454 wrote:
I like the rose, but the bkg would look better with less blue maybe.. heck I don't know. Great mood.
Hi Chad,
If it gets you thinking about it that's good too!
I didn't change the background color at all.
Martin
Tim Kuhn wrote:
Martin, I find that to be a very pleasing photograph. I would be proud to have it as one of mine.
Tim
Thanks Tim, that means a lot to me.
Martin
Edited by Martin Good on Aug 06, 2008 at 08:19 PM GMT
Edited by Martin Good on Aug 06, 2008 at 08:21 PM GMT
Karl Witt wrote:
I think your title fits well Martin. Cool hues of evening and a delightful creamy pink bloom. Only thought would be if a vertical would enhance it more? Nice subtle shot!
Karl
Thanks Karl. I thought about making it a bit more vertical but I did not want to lose any of the foliage underneath.
Glad you liked it.
Martin davidearls wrote:
Martin,
Don't change a thing. I hope you printed one up and framed it to hang on your wall -
David,
Had not thought of it but will try a print and see how it turns out.
Thanks for your comment.
Martin
Dave In La wrote:
beautiful......very sharp yet soft, and that's the good soft!
if you will convert this AdobeRGB image to sRGB, it will display better
color in most browsers. Looks a bit muddy in a non color managed browser
Hi Dave,
Maybe soft is now good too!!
Thanks for the advice and your nice comment. Will try a conversion as you suggest.
Martin
Jude Perera wrote:
I like the soft pleasing feel of this Martin. Congrats.
Glad you liked it Jude. Thanks for looking and for your nice comment.
Martin
Jude
trailhiker wrote:
Exquisitely-captured, Martin. Did you desaturate the bg post-process to get that effect? Whether altered or au naturel, it's very subtle-y done...
Best Wishes,
Steve
Hi Steve,
I tried to follow the Socrate formula as kindly copied to me by Anthony and I have copied it here for your ease of reference.
Thanks for looking and for your comment.
Martin
"I only do the sharpening as my last adjustment (no sharpening in RAW) and I use the Smart Sharpening tool. Amount 100 - Radius 0.2 - Remove: lens blur - More accurate: Unchecked. I usually do one, to three passes with that setting as needed. After every pass I use the fade command (go to edit/fade sharpening/luminosity mode) and I use the Luminosity mode to apply the sharpening only to luminosity. This has the same effect as converting to Lab mode and sharpening the Luminosity channel only, but it is faster and less destructive . If needed I reduce the opacity a bit also. I hardly use the advanced mode of the Smart sharpening.
Those are my settings for the web sharpening. For the normal sharpening I use higher values for the radius, but I hardly exceed 1.0. Uncheck/check the "Preview" check box to have a better view of how much sharpening you've applied. When you think your sharpening looks good reduce the opacity of about 20% because we all have the tendency to oversharpen a bit.
It is also important to get the image's overall tonality right to begin with. This will bring more detail to be sharpened."
