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Now that I have (just) started with Lightroom I have taken to mining
my old images for candidates for better processing. Here is one I found, taken in 2006 with my Nikon D70. I was staying in a hotel on the outskirts of central Melbourne. The back view from the hotel looked out through tinted glass windows on to buildings, most of which dated from before about 1880. The view fascinated me so I took a number of photographs, the original raw file for one of which may be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...3/DSC_1764.NEF Alternatively, a JPG of that shot can be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...Roofs-1764.jpg After much dabbling, I finished up with https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ofs-1764-3.jpg I am not entirely happy with this image and know that it should benefit from cropping: but the question is where? I have an old attempt where I cropped it at about the first-floor verandah level of the old two-storey house at the right of the image. That didn't seem too bad at the time but I am not entirely happy with that in the present image. You will notice that I have made some perspective changes. This was done entirely with Lightroom 'auto'. I was concerned with the color changes wrought by the tinted glass but LR's 'auto' seems to have dealt reasonably well with that. But I am still not entirely happy. But it's all progress. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:57:50 +1300, Eric Stevens
wrote: : Now that I have (just) started with Lightroom I have taken to mining : my old images for candidates for better processing. Here is one I : found, taken in 2006 with my Nikon D70. : : I was staying in a hotel on the outskirts of central Melbourne. The : back view from the hotel looked out through tinted glass windows on to : buildings, most of which dated from before about 1880. The view : fascinated me so I took a number of photographs, the original raw file : for one of which may be found at : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...3/DSC_1764.NEF : : Alternatively, a JPG of that shot can be found at : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...Roofs-1764.jpg : : After much dabbling, I finished up with : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ofs-1764-3.jpg : : I am not entirely happy with this image and know that it should : benefit from cropping: but the question is where? I have an old : attempt where I cropped it at about the first-floor verandah level of : the old two-storey house at the right of the image. That didn't seem : too bad at the time but I am not entirely happy with that in the : present image. : : You will notice that I have made some perspective changes. This was : done entirely with Lightroom 'auto'. : : I was concerned with the color changes wrought by the tinted glass but : LR's 'auto' seems to have dealt reasonably well with that. But I am : still not entirely happy. But it's all progress. At first glance the fixed version is prettier, mainly because it's not so dark and murky. But it conveys little or no information about where the light is coming from. So the longer I look at it, the more artificial it appears. I wouldn't crop it, BTW. Compositionally, I think it's OK as is, and it isn't clear what would be gained. Bob |
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On 2014-10-24 01:57:50 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
Now that I have (just) started with Lightroom I have taken to mining my old images for candidates for better processing. Here is one I found, taken in 2006 with my Nikon D70. I was staying in a hotel on the outskirts of central Melbourne. The back view from the hotel looked out through tinted glass windows on to buildings, most of which dated from before about 1880. The view fascinated me so I took a number of photographs, the original raw file for one of which may be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...3/DSC_1764.NEF Alternatively, a JPG of that shot can be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...Roofs-1764.jpg After much dabbling, I finished up with https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ofs-1764-3.jpg I am not entirely happy with this image and know that it should benefit from cropping: but the question is where? I have an old attempt where I cropped it at about the first-floor verandah level of the old two-storey house at the right of the image. That didn't seem too bad at the time but I am not entirely happy with that in the present image. You will notice that I have made some perspective changes. This was done entirely with Lightroom 'auto'. I was concerned with the color changes wrought by the tinted glass but LR's 'auto' seems to have dealt reasonably well with that. But I am still not entirely happy. But it's all progress. I am happy to see that you are tackling LR. This shot looks like a good image to noodle about with in LR. I took your NEF into LR and worked on it just using LR. I cropped at the bottom boundary, set black & white points, and made some other adjustments in the Basic panel including dropping the WB temperature a tad to deal with the warming color cast of the tinted glass. Sharpened in LR, and a smidgen of NR, to get to this: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_985.jpg https://db.tt/CrEX1FLk -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 2014-10-24 02:39:54 +0000, Savageduck said:
On 2014-10-24 01:57:50 +0000, Eric Stevens said: Now that I have (just) started with Lightroom I have taken to mining my old images for candidates for better processing. Here is one I found, taken in 2006 with my Nikon D70. I was staying in a hotel on the outskirts of central Melbourne. The back view from the hotel looked out through tinted glass windows on to buildings, most of which dated from before about 1880. The view fascinated me so I took a number of photographs, the original raw file for one of which may be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...3/DSC_1764.NEF Alternatively, a JPG of that shot can be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...Roofs-1764.jpg After much dabbling, I finished up with https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ofs-1764-3.jpg I am not entirely happy with this image and know that it should benefit from cropping: but the question is where? I have an old attempt where I cropped it at about the first-floor verandah level of the old two-storey house at the right of the image. That didn't seem too bad at the time but I am not entirely happy with that in the present image. You will notice that I have made some perspective changes. This was done entirely with Lightroom 'auto'. I was concerned with the color changes wrought by the tinted glass but LR's 'auto' seems to have dealt reasonably well with that. But I am still not entirely happy. But it's all progress. I am happy to see that you are tackling LR. This shot looks like a good image to noodle about with in LR. I took your NEF into LR and worked on it just using LR. I cropped at the bottom boundary, set black & white points, and made some other adjustments in the Basic panel including dropping the WB temperature a tad to deal with the warming color cast of the tinted glass. Sharpened in LR, and a smidgen of NR, to get to this: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_985.jpg https://db.tt/CrEX1FLk Then just for the Hell of it, I took it into PS CC (2014) and used the *Adaptive Wide Angle* filter using the buildings in the upper left for alignment. That gave me a slightly different crop, but a fair amount of the perspective distortion is fixed. https://db.tt/UsxHECVm -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:57:50 +1300, Eric Stevens
wrote: Now that I have (just) started with Lightroom I have taken to mining my old images for candidates for better processing. Here is one I found, taken in 2006 with my Nikon D70. I was staying in a hotel on the outskirts of central Melbourne. The back view from the hotel looked out through tinted glass windows on to buildings, most of which dated from before about 1880. The view fascinated me so I took a number of photographs, the original raw file for one of which may be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...3/DSC_1764.NEF Alternatively, a JPG of that shot can be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...Roofs-1764.jpg After much dabbling, I finished up with https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ofs-1764-3.jpg I am not entirely happy with this image and know that it should benefit from cropping: but the question is where? I have an old attempt where I cropped it at about the first-floor verandah level of the old two-storey house at the right of the image. That didn't seem too bad at the time but I am not entirely happy with that in the present image. Here is a crop https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ofs-1764-4.jpg and her is another https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ofs-1764-5.jpg You will notice that I have made some perspective changes. This was done entirely with Lightroom 'auto'. I was concerned with the color changes wrought by the tinted glass but LR's 'auto' seems to have dealt reasonably well with that. But I am still not entirely happy. But it's all progress. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:05:47 -0700, Savageduck
wrote: On 2014-10-24 02:39:54 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2014-10-24 01:57:50 +0000, Eric Stevens said: Now that I have (just) started with Lightroom I have taken to mining my old images for candidates for better processing. Here is one I found, taken in 2006 with my Nikon D70. I was staying in a hotel on the outskirts of central Melbourne. The back view from the hotel looked out through tinted glass windows on to buildings, most of which dated from before about 1880. The view fascinated me so I took a number of photographs, the original raw file for one of which may be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...3/DSC_1764.NEF Alternatively, a JPG of that shot can be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...Roofs-1764.jpg After much dabbling, I finished up with https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ofs-1764-3.jpg I am not entirely happy with this image and know that it should benefit from cropping: but the question is where? I have an old attempt where I cropped it at about the first-floor verandah level of the old two-storey house at the right of the image. That didn't seem too bad at the time but I am not entirely happy with that in the present image. You will notice that I have made some perspective changes. This was done entirely with Lightroom 'auto'. I was concerned with the color changes wrought by the tinted glass but LR's 'auto' seems to have dealt reasonably well with that. But I am still not entirely happy. But it's all progress. I am happy to see that you are tackling LR. This shot looks like a good image to noodle about with in LR. I took your NEF into LR and worked on it just using LR. I cropped at the bottom boundary, set black & white points, and made some other adjustments in the Basic panel including dropping the WB temperature a tad to deal with the warming color cast of the tinted glass. Sharpened in LR, and a smidgen of NR, to get to this: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_985.jpg https://db.tt/CrEX1FLk Then just for the Hell of it, I took it into PS CC (2014) and used the *Adaptive Wide Angle* filter using the buildings in the upper left for alignment. That gave me a slightly different crop, but a fair amount of the perspective distortion is fixed. https://db.tt/UsxHECVm Not bad for an old D70, is it? -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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On 2014-10-24 03:45:34 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:05:47 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2014-10-24 02:39:54 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2014-10-24 01:57:50 +0000, Eric Stevens said: Now that I have (just) started with Lightroom I have taken to mining my old images for candidates for better processing. Here is one I found, taken in 2006 with my Nikon D70. I was staying in a hotel on the outskirts of central Melbourne. The back view from the hotel looked out through tinted glass windows on to buildings, most of which dated from before about 1880. The view fascinated me so I took a number of photographs, the original raw file for one of which may be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...3/DSC_1764.NEF Alternatively, a JPG of that shot can be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...Roofs-1764.jpg After much dabbling, I finished up with https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ofs-1764-3.jpg I am not entirely happy with this image and know that it should benefit from cropping: but the question is where? I have an old attempt where I cropped it at about the first-floor verandah level of the old two-storey house at the right of the image. That didn't seem too bad at the time but I am not entirely happy with that in the present image. You will notice that I have made some perspective changes. This was done entirely with Lightroom 'auto'. I was concerned with the color changes wrought by the tinted glass but LR's 'auto' seems to have dealt reasonably well with that. But I am still not entirely happy. But it's all progress. I am happy to see that you are tackling LR. This shot looks like a good image to noodle about with in LR. I took your NEF into LR and worked on it just using LR. I cropped at the bottom boundary, set black & white points, and made some other adjustments in the Basic panel including dropping the WB temperature a tad to deal with the warming color cast of the tinted glass. Sharpened in LR, and a smidgen of NR, to get to this: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_985.jpg https://db.tt/CrEX1FLk Then just for the Hell of it, I took it into PS CC (2014) and used the *Adaptive Wide Angle* filter using the buildings in the upper left for alignment. That gave me a slightly different crop, but a fair amount of the perspective distortion is fixed. https://db.tt/UsxHECVm Not bad for an old D70, is it? I still have mine, and that 18-70mm was a great lens. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:01:38 -0700, Savageduck
wrote: On 2014-10-24 03:45:34 +0000, Eric Stevens said: On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:05:47 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2014-10-24 02:39:54 +0000, Savageduck said: On 2014-10-24 01:57:50 +0000, Eric Stevens said: Now that I have (just) started with Lightroom I have taken to mining my old images for candidates for better processing. Here is one I found, taken in 2006 with my Nikon D70. I was staying in a hotel on the outskirts of central Melbourne. The back view from the hotel looked out through tinted glass windows on to buildings, most of which dated from before about 1880. The view fascinated me so I took a number of photographs, the original raw file for one of which may be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...3/DSC_1764.NEF Alternatively, a JPG of that shot can be found at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...Roofs-1764.jpg After much dabbling, I finished up with https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ofs-1764-3.jpg I am not entirely happy with this image and know that it should benefit from cropping: but the question is where? I have an old attempt where I cropped it at about the first-floor verandah level of the old two-storey house at the right of the image. That didn't seem too bad at the time but I am not entirely happy with that in the present image. You will notice that I have made some perspective changes. This was done entirely with Lightroom 'auto'. I was concerned with the color changes wrought by the tinted glass but LR's 'auto' seems to have dealt reasonably well with that. But I am still not entirely happy. But it's all progress. I am happy to see that you are tackling LR. This shot looks like a good image to noodle about with in LR. I took your NEF into LR and worked on it just using LR. I cropped at the bottom boundary, set black & white points, and made some other adjustments in the Basic panel including dropping the WB temperature a tad to deal with the warming color cast of the tinted glass. Sharpened in LR, and a smidgen of NR, to get to this: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_985.jpg https://db.tt/CrEX1FLk Then just for the Hell of it, I took it into PS CC (2014) and used the *Adaptive Wide Angle* filter using the buildings in the upper left for alignment. That gave me a slightly different crop, but a fair amount of the perspective distortion is fixed. https://db.tt/UsxHECVm Not bad for an old D70, is it? I still have mine, and that 18-70mm was a great lens. I am afraid I sold mine. I wouldn't be using it even if I had kept it. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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On 24/10/2014 04:05, Savageduck wrote:
Then just for the Hell of it, I took it into PS CC (2014) and used the *Adaptive Wide Angle* filter using the buildings in the upper left for alignment. That gave me a slightly different crop, but a fair amount of the perspective distortion is fixed. https://db.tt/UsxHECVm That would have been my crop too. |
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