Art Rosch wrote:
Matt, i'd like to know your workflow in getting such detailed and flawless images
uploaded to the web. Beautiful shots. I use WP Pro to shrink, Save For Web,
then a little Digital Velvia. Are you doing anything special?
Thanks
Art
Hi Art,
Thanks for the comments.
The workflow for those photos was nothing special ... based around Fred's Velvia Vision plugin, with little other editing. Here's the full workflow:
* open RAW file in Photoshop CS (using Adobe Camera RAW 2.4)
* check exposure and convert to a 16-bit file, AdobeRGB (1998) colour space
* save as a .PSD file
* apply Fred's Velvia Vision plugin. Intensity = 50-60%, Smart Contrast = Contrast 1, Smart Colour Correction and Neutralize Midtones unchecked. (settings visually checked and adjusted using the preview function, particularly the contrast setting). No other functions used (I tried playing around with dynamic range, but didn't really like it).
* final saturation and contrast check. Adjust if required (maybe +5)
* save .PSD master file
* resize to 1024 width
* apply unsharp mask using 100%, 1.0, 0 settings
* convert to 8-bit
* convert to sRGB colour space
* add border
* save as a .JPG, quality 10.
Monitors hardware calibrated to 6500K, 2.2 Gamma.
Photoshop working colour space set to AdobeRGB (1998).
Hopefully that's reasonably colour-managed.
I think it's just hard to take a bad photo in New Zealand
I'm loving this thread .. I'm a real fan of wide angle shots.
How do y'all get these blue skies? Polarisers? I had the impression that PL's on a UW-angle was a no-go as the shooting-angle is so large that the polarising effect is not the same on the whole image?
Ok, this one is a bit silly. I told the kid his nose was bigger than mine!
Kenko Fisheye adapter on 55mm m42 lens. Effective focal length is 8.8mm.
Can anyone tell me if this is about the same crop you get with the Chinese fisheye?
stefimke wrote:
How do y'all get these blue skies? Polarisers? I had the impression that PL's on a UW-angle was a no-go as the shooting-angle is so large that the polarising effect is not the same on the whole image?
Well it still works but the polarizing effect is uneven. You can get around that by using a filter that is a good size larger than the lens.
ForeverUnknown wrote:
Well it still works but the polarizing effect is uneven. You can get around that by using a filter that is a good size larger than the lens.
