Lovely images on this thread, just as usual. I need to get down to PPing some of mine from the Christmas - New Year period.
There's a haunting song concerning the WWII Allied defeat at Dunkirque and two brothers, one who escapes and the other who is captured at St Valéry, one of about 10,000 prisoners from the 51st Highland Division.
The Normandic coast is full of assure unforgettable memories oe WWII as I see everytime i am specially at the coastline. The whole area is full of reminiscences of war.
I recently bought a copy of DxO's Optics Pro Elite V10, to see if it would do a better job with my P645D DNGs than LR and certainly the fudged approach I was using with C1 Pro 8 (customising a P645D ICC profile by hand-matching the colour chart from a Color Checker, since C1 Pro doesn't support DCPs and DCPtoICC did not produce any ICCs that appeared to have any real quality to them.)
It's too early for me to draw any real conclusions, however first indications seem promising. It is clunky however because it fails (runtime error) to export a file to the folder I specify, so instead I have to export to LR and then re-export from there - duh!
Anyway, three re-processed, all using the FA45-85 zoom on my P645D. ( I hope that I haven't posted these before - it's too mush in teh arly hours for me to want to trawl through my post stats to check, sorry).
abandoned farmhouse
Nice re-use of an outboard motor casing for a mailbox.
It looks pretty flat due lighting prioritised for skies and I'm still on the learning curve with DxO Pro, so it may be that better results could be achieved (The shot had too much EV bias dialled in that wasn't helping).
Processed from RAW (DNG) in DxO Pro 10, then re-sized and exported from LR
David, yeh, the BW looks very nice. I think with a little PP, you will gain more dramatic results with color one. I'd increase exposure a little to push overall mid tone and highlight to right. push white to right to have more dramatic tone mapping, reduce highlight to adding cloud detail, adding some midtone contrast etc.. Just a thought.
