Peter Figen wrote:
Dan - I like these images but my very first impression of the donkey is that it feels yellow/green.
Yea, I wondered about that. This was taken with the 75mm which does appear to have a slight yellow cast in the optics. I wondering if I should try sending it back or just compensate for this....
Speaking of compensating, thanks for the processing on the meadow shot. I can always use a better pair of color-vision eyes. It does look a bit over, BUT certainly closer to what it looked like. I thought I ran a P/S action to set color space...??. Reminder-Note to self, don't post after looking at screen late at night
Wait til the morning!
I was sending images to those that offered to screen but that gets old (for them).
Sometimes you just have to dive in.
I saved your take on it & will look at the RGB differences. What particular steps did you take on it?
Dan - The basic steps I did - and I almost always take it too far at first so I can drop back later - were to run H/S on the top half to bring the clouds down some. Then I made a quick select selection to separate the sky from the meadow and did a Hue/Sat to take some magenta out of the sky, then invert that selection and do a contrast and brightening curve on the lower half, then a Hue/Sat targeting just the lupine and the green grasses to boost them up. Finally a touch of hi radius low amount USM to add some snap, which maybe it didn't need at that point.
As to your 75 lens. Some lenses are slightly different color than others. No big deal and easily corrected. I would not send it back. It's more just being aware of image that are under green trees almost always have a yellow/green cast to them. How much of that you want to keep is up to you.
believe Fuji c200, maybe xtra 400. From a roll shot this winter/early spring with a recent shot to finish the roll off. Cheap canon rebel, 40/2.8 stm. Pakon scanned.
Kenny, had to look up the Medalist. Wow, what a beautiful machine (it looks just more like an engine, not just like a "camera"). Nice work with it!
Peter, I always enjoy looking at your portraits. Somehow I think the portrait of Claudia Williams would have been even better with the light coming from the left side, but that is clearly nit-picking. Hope you don't mind. The landscape is wonderful too. Thanks for sharing!
Nico/Nicholas, your city-details are proof of a well trained eye. Great!
Mai-Himmel by Georg, auf Flickr
Fuji GW 680 III, expired Neopan 400 in Rodinal, printed on Adox RC-paper
[] by Georg, auf Flickr
Fuji GW 680 III too, Neopan 400 in Rodinal, printed this time on Fomatone MG 532 II fibre-based paper
This paper is really something, less yellow-ish looking in nature, with wonderful tones.
George - I don't remember exactly, but it may have been impossible to put a light on the left. I usually prefer lighting from the left but you can't always do exactly what you want especially when you're in a cow pasture.
Some very dark shots from inside the Bush Library at Texas A&M. A car exhibit titled Driven to Drive: Defining our Identity. Shot these with a Mamiya 7 and Kodak TMax 400 rated at 1600 for the better shutterspeeds, as flash is not allowed in the museum.
What I didn't do right, among other things, was the developing; they're still too dark and mushy.
