Innocent Flowers Cause Loss of Mind!

gpgold

More from the land of the wildflower addict. Early in March I went to the Poppie Reserve ( around the time I joined this forum). A couple of weeks later a one day 630 mile sprint through Death Valley and back. Last weekend I needed to visit Tahoe for business, so I drove from L.A. (1000 miles - 20 hours in the car over three days) in order to see the Mojave in bloom and the Sierra covered with snow. On the way back I said what-the-hell I'm close (only 15 miles off the 14) and stopped back at the Poppie Reserve for some afternoon light.

SusanB

gpgold wrote:

More from the land of the wildflower addict. Early in March I went to the Poppie Reserve ( around the time I joined this forum). A couple of weeks later a one day 630 mile sprint through Death Valley and back. Last weekend I needed to visit Tahoe for business, so I drove from L.A. (1000 miles - 20 hours in the car over three days) in order to see the Mojave in bloom and the Sierra covered with snow. On the way back I said what-the-hell I'm close (only 15 miles off the 14) and stopped back at the Poppie Reserve for some afternoon light.

Very lovely capture with the combination of contrasting flowers and the poppies still closed but bright and colorful.

Susan

rutt

This picture is suffering from the out of gamut desease. Here is a diagnosis and quick fix.

I applied it to your image and got this:



Note that I did nothing but move your image in and out of CMYK. Better, right? But I think the idea with flowers is to make them really pop. I think your image is too light and needs contrast. I used LAB curves and got this:



What I did was almost identical to what I did here.

USAIR

gpgold
Very nice shot wonderful colors too

Thanks
Fred

gpgold

SusanB wrote:

Very lovely capture with the combination of contrasting flowers and the poppies still closed but bright and colorful.

Susan

Susan,

Thanks for your kind comments.

regards,

Gary

gpgold

rutt wrote:

This picture is suffering from the out of gamut desease. Here is a diagnosis and quick fix.

I applied it to your image and got this:



Note that I did nothing but move your image in and out of CMYK. Better, right? But I think the idea with flowers is to make them really pop. I think your image is too light and needs contrast. I used LAB curves and got this:



What I did was almost identical to what I did here.

Rutt,

Thanks for taking the time to show me this very helpful info. I have trying to teach myself photoshop from some books over the last year. Interestingly I just last week started to use the gamut warning and CMYK. I would try to get the CMYK as close as I could to original by having both on the screen.
The help on this forum has been great. I really appreciate yours.

regards,

Gary

rutt

gpgold wrote:

Rutt,

Thanks for taking the time to show me this very helpful info. I have trying to teach myself photoshop from some books over the last year. Interestingly I just last week started to use the gamut warning and CMYK. I would try to get the CMYK as close as I could to original by having both on the screen.
The help on this forum has been great. I really appreciate yours.

regards,

Gary

I think I was ahead of myself on this topic yesterday. There are still some mysteries, but there is a lot of helpful info
here.

In all likelyhood, we weren't seeing the same thing when we looked at these flowers, especially the originals. Still, they are too light and a steeper L curve with the light side clipped more than the dark side will help a lot.

gpgold

rutt wrote:

I think I was ahead of myself on this topic yesterday. There are still some mysteries, but there is a lot of helpful info
here.

In all likelyhood, we weren't seeing the same thing when we looked at these flowers, especially the originals. Still, they are too light and a steeper L curve with the light side clipped more than the dark side will help a lot.

Rutt,

I didn't know that digital cameras had such fun with the color orange until I took my poppy shots. I have just been trying the LAB thing on some mountain sunflower shots.

I did a search but didn't find if you did a piece on USM. I wondered if there is one that shows how you decide what to apply. Your numbers were very different from what I have been using.

regards,

Gary

rutt

gpgold wrote:

Rutt,

I did a search but didn't find if you did a piece on USM. I wondered if there is one that shows how you decide what to apply. Your numbers were very different from what I have been using.

Man, nothing but great straight men this AM. See here and here.

gpgold

rutt wrote:

Man, nothing but great straight men this AM. See here and here.

Rutt,

I just checked in for a minute (I'm at work) thanks very much for the links. I am looking forward to studing your tutorial tonight.

best regards,

Gary