Another Rough Cal CenCoast Winter's day

On 2016-02-14 21:47:33 +0000, Davoud said:

Eric Stevens:
Duck, I like the photographs but they all seem a trifle dull to me.
And I've just recalibrated my screens.

That dull, flat look seems to be his trademark. Don't know whether
these were RAW or how he processed them, but they're overbalanced
toward the blue end.

They are processed from RAW, and are subject to my experimentation with
Lightroom, Photoshop and the other tools I have at my disposal.
I might go for a particular 'look' from time-to-time, but I don't have
a particular signature, or "trademark" to my images, and I might well
revisit the same file several times to try something different.
Sometimes it is very different, perhaps a deliberate HDR, sometimes I
have used a filter at capture, sometimes it is applied in post.

I am not a pro, or PJ. I have no deadlines to meet, and I have the
luxury to be able to engage in that experimentation.

--
Regards,

Savageduck

On 2016-02-14 22:23:44 +0000, Savageduck said:

On 2016-02-14 21:47:33 +0000, Davoud said:

Eric Stevens:
Duck, I like the photographs but they all seem a trifle dull to me.
And I've just recalibrated my screens.

That dull, flat look seems to be his trademark. Don't know whether
these were RAW or how he processed them, but they're overbalanced
toward the blue end.

They are processed from RAW, and are subject to my experimentation with
Lightroom, Photoshop and the other tools I have at my disposal.
I might go for a particular 'look' from time-to-time, but I don't have
a particular signature, or "trademark" to my images, and I might well
revisit the same file several times to try something different.
Sometimes it is very different, perhaps a deliberate HDR, sometimes I
have used a filter at capture, sometimes it is applied in post.

I am not a pro, or PJ. I have no deadlines to meet, and I have the
luxury to be able to engage in that experimentation.

Just to show some of what I am talking about, here are two of
yesterday's shots showing the unmolested original RAW compared with the
image I shared yesterday, and two other experimntal renditions.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_498.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_496.jpg

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Regards,

Savageduck

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 02:38:16 -0800, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2016-02-14 07:41:06 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 19:55:50 -0800, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2016-02-14 03:27:27 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 16:05:25 -0800, Savageduck
wrote:

I needed a bit of salt air this morning so I took a drive to make sure
it was still Winter.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/301ybar212v33sf/AAAQaTKZxCuzwpUQvQpxFOCxa?dl=0

Duck, I like the photographs but they all seem a trifle dull to me.
And I've just recalibrated my screens.

How do the Drop Box images look, compared with the ones you sent off?

Don't worry about it. They were shot with the Fuji and I used the
Fujifilm 'Classic Chrome' LR Camera Calibration. I guess if I had used
something else you wouldn't have noticed.

For example I changed this shot from 'Classic Chrome' to 'Astia', with
no other adjustment. I could have left it at Adobe Standard, or
something else.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2448009keoi0z5i/_DSF1355-2.jpg?dl=0
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_494.jpg

How does https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500502.jpg
look to you?

Fine.

Try this:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_495.jpg

Better, but it still doesn't look right to me.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 2016-02-14 23:29:31 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 02:38:16 -0800, Savageduck
wrote:
On 2016-02-14 07:41:06 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 19:55:50 -0800, Savageduck
wrote:
On 2016-02-14 03:27:27 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 16:05:25 -0800, Savageduck
wrote:

I needed a bit of salt air this morning so I took a drive to make sure
it was still Winter.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/301ybar212v33sf/AAAQaTKZxCuzwpUQvQpxFOCxa?dl=0

Duck, I like the photographs but they all seem a trifle dull to me.
And I've just recalibrated my screens.

How do the Drop Box images look, compared with the ones you sent off?

Don't worry about it. They were shot with the Fuji and I used the
Fujifilm 'Classic Chrome' LR Camera Calibration. I guess if I had used
something else you wouldn't have noticed.

For example I changed this shot from 'Classic Chrome' to 'Astia', with
no other adjustment. I could have left it at Adobe Standard, or
something else.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2448009keoi0z5i/_DSF1355-2.jpg?dl=0
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_494.jpg

How does https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500502.jpg
look to you?

Fine.

Try this:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_495.jpg

Better, but it still doesn't look right to me.

OK! To get your head out of that particular shot here is a similar one
of the pier and beach, with my head doing different things.
https://db.tt/4dNnve1r

--
Regards,

Savageduck

On 2/14/2016 4:51 PM, Davoud wrote:
Eric Stevens:
How does https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500502.jpg
look to you?

As a photograph, I would say it's nicely done.

The building and horizon lines do not look straight to me. I have a
preference for using a vignette to darken the edges thereby making it
easier for the viewer to look at the subject.



As a building for which I would want to be responsible for paying the
utility bills, it's a total loser.




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PeterN

On 2/14/2016 5:23 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-02-14 21:47:33 +0000, Davoud said:

Eric Stevens:
Duck, I like the photographs but they all seem a trifle dull to me.
And I've just recalibrated my screens.

That dull, flat look seems to be his trademark. Don't know whether
these were RAW or how he processed them, but they're overbalanced
toward the blue end.

They are processed from RAW, and are subject to my experimentation with
Lightroom, Photoshop and the other tools I have at my disposal.
I might go for a particular 'look' from time-to-time, but I don't have a
particular signature, or "trademark" to my images, and I might well
revisit the same file several times to try something different.
Sometimes it is very different, perhaps a deliberate HDR, sometimes I
have used a filter at capture, sometimes it is applied in post.

I am not a pro, or PJ. I have no deadlines to meet, and I have the
luxury to be able to engage in that experimentation.


I will say that when an image lke this appears in my CC, most will
realize it's mine. Yes, I freely admit there was post processing involved.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97242118/Year%20of%20The%20Monkey.jpg


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PeterN

On 2016-02-15 01:13:43 +0000, PeterN said:

On 2/14/2016 5:23 PM, Savageduck wrote:
On 2016-02-14 21:47:33 +0000, Davoud said:

Eric Stevens:
Duck, I like the photographs but they all seem a trifle dull to me.
And I've just recalibrated my screens.

That dull, flat look seems to be his trademark. Don't know whether
these were RAW or how he processed them, but they're overbalanced
toward the blue end.

They are processed from RAW, and are subject to my experimentation with
Lightroom, Photoshop and the other tools I have at my disposal.
I might go for a particular 'look' from time-to-time, but I don't have a
particular signature, or "trademark" to my images, and I might well
revisit the same file several times to try something different.
Sometimes it is very different, perhaps a deliberate HDR, sometimes I
have used a filter at capture, sometimes it is applied in post.

I am not a pro, or PJ. I have no deadlines to meet, and I have the
luxury to be able to engage in that experimentation.


I will say that when an image lke this appears in my CC, most will
realize it's mine. Yes, I freely admit there was post processing
involved.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97242118/Year%20of%20The%20Monkey.jpg

Yup! That is all you.

--
Regards,

Savageduck

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:22:47 -0800, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2016-02-14 23:29:31 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 02:38:16 -0800, Savageduck
wrote:
On 2016-02-14 07:41:06 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 19:55:50 -0800, Savageduck
wrote:
On 2016-02-14 03:27:27 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 16:05:25 -0800, Savageduck
wrote:

I needed a bit of salt air this morning so I took a drive to make sure
it was still Winter.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/301ybar212v33sf/AAAQaTKZxCuzwpUQvQpxFOCxa?dl=0

Duck, I like the photographs but they all seem a trifle dull to me.
And I've just recalibrated my screens.

How do the Drop Box images look, compared with the ones you sent off?

Don't worry about it. They were shot with the Fuji and I used the
Fujifilm 'Classic Chrome' LR Camera Calibration. I guess if I had used
something else you wouldn't have noticed.

For example I changed this shot from 'Classic Chrome' to 'Astia', with
no other adjustment. I could have left it at Adobe Standard, or
something else.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2448009keoi0z5i/_DSF1355-2.jpg?dl=0
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_494.jpg

How does https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500502.jpg
look to you?

Fine.

Try this:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_495.jpg

Better, but it still doesn't look right to me.

OK! To get your head out of that particular shot here is a similar one
of the pier and beach, with my head doing different things.
https://db.tt/4dNnve1r

Here is a JPG showing what I have done to it
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31088803/Erics.jpg

I've tried sending you a PSD showing what I have done but none of the
details show up https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31088803/Erics.psd

Basically all I was apply a curve with a slight kick up at the lower
end and increase the brightness and contrast a tad.
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

On 2016-02-15 03:11:55 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:22:47 -0800, Savageduck
wrote:

On 2016-02-14 23:29:31 +0000, Eric Stevens said:

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 02:38:16 -0800, Savageduck
wrote:
On 2016-02-14 07:41:06 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 19:55:50 -0800, Savageduck
wrote:
On 2016-02-14 03:27:27 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 16:05:25 -0800, Savageduck
wrote:

I needed a bit of salt air this morning so I took a drive to make sure
it was still Winter.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/301ybar212v33sf/AAAQaTKZxCuzwpUQvQpxFOCxa?dl=0

Duck, I like the photographs but they all seem a trifle dull to me.
And I've just recalibrated my screens.

How do the Drop Box images look, compared with the ones you sent off?

Don't worry about it. They were shot with the Fuji and I used the
Fujifilm 'Classic Chrome' LR Camera Calibration. I guess if I had used
something else you wouldn't have noticed.

For example I changed this shot from 'Classic Chrome' to 'Astia', with
no other adjustment. I could have left it at Adobe Standard, or
something else.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2448009keoi0z5i/_DSF1355-2.jpg?dl=0
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_494.jpg

How does https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500502.jpg
look to you?

Fine.

Try this:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_495.jpg

Better, but it still doesn't look right to me.

OK! To get your head out of that particular shot here is a similar one
of the pier and beach, with my head doing different things.
https://db.tt/4dNnve1r

Here is a JPG showing what I have done to it
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31088803/Erics.jpg

I see that it is brighter.

I've tried sending you a PSD showing what I have done but none of the
details show up https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31088803/Erics.psd

Basically all I was apply a curve with a slight kick up at the lower
end and increase the brightness and contrast a tad.

The curve adjustment shows, but the brightness/contrast doesn't. That
particular image didn't need that much of a bump. Some of the others
probably do.


--
Regards,

Savageduck

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:24:08 -0500, PeterN
wrote:

On 2/14/2016 4:51 PM, Davoud wrote:
Eric Stevens:
How does https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...R--7500502.jpg
look to you?

As a photograph, I would say it's nicely done.

The building and horizon lines do not look straight to me. I have a
preference for using a vignette to darken the edges thereby making it
easier for the viewer to look at the subject.

The lines are as straight as LR can easily make them. One thing I have
learned photographing old buildings around Europe is that even if they
were built straight and square they have sagged into all kinds of
shapes over the intervening centuries. Look at this lot in Amsterdam.

The Schloss Johannisburg which you doesn't look straight was built 400
years ago and it wouldn't surpise me if the foundations had settled a
little in that time.



As a building for which I would want to be responsible for paying the
utility bills, it's a total loser.

https://translate.google.co.nz/trans...rg&prev=search
or http://tinyurl.com/zejjane

"until 1803 as a second residence of the Mainz archbishops and
electors"

I guess they could afford it.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens