With some photographs I find that it takes time to come to a conclusion on a new photograph, before you suddenly see that you really like it or really don\'t. That\'s the reason that I like to post continuous flow of pictures to my flickr stream: not that one consistently gets good comments on flickr; but once in a while someone comments in a way that makes you see something that you didn\'t about the picture. In other words, I don\'t post necessarily what I think are my best pictures to flickr, but post to see if there is any interesting reaction. My feeling is that I\'ll use the same approach here.
At first, when I saw that there were over 700 pages in this thread, my reaction was, \"why should I post here since no one will go through so many pages.\" But after having participated in some ten(?) pages it occurred to me that this thread is not only very good, but also useful. It\'s actually great because, if you check in here daily, you get to see all kinds of photographs that you would not have looked — in contrast to, for example, the image forums on LUF, which are separated into too many categories. Also, by looking at pictures of a different type that you normally take can also be very instructive, as can the comments that you sometimes get.
LR Clarity Slider
Except for the picture below, I cannot think of any image to which I have not applied some Clarity increase, which increases the mid-tone contrast. In the picture below, however, I tried add ing 15-20 of Clarity and then decided not adding any because, even a small amount of Clarity, increased the contrast of the o-o-f leaves in the background. Question: How do you work with the Clarity slider and what considerations do you have whether to apply it and how much?
M9-P | Summilux-50 pre-ASPH | ISO 160 | f/2.0 | 1/1500 sec Pak Nam Pran
—Mitch/Pak Nam Pran Bangkok Obvious [WIP] Eggleston said that he was \"at war with the obvious\"...
