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    Canon 7D Mark II
    600mm (Tamron 150-600)
    ISO 800
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    1/1000ss

    Cropped to size, NR and sharpening

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    Nice rendering of the tones on the head -- not easy. The colors are nice, with the gold and green, and it looks sharp. I wonder if there is a little more detail in the whites? The neck looks just a little blown out.

    The light is on the harsh side -- I'd try to bring out more shadow and highlight detail in the raw conversion. Can you give more information about how you handled that step?

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    My settings in LR were +.35 exposure, +9 contrast, -50 highlight, +50 shadow, +5 white, -5 black, +35 clarity, +25 vibrance and +15 saturation, WB was the Daylight preset. I use AWB in camera. Shot was taken at 3:30 PM on Feb 4.
    With the settings zeroed out there is a tiny hotspot in the upper right of the cheek spot, a fair sized hot spot ion the left middle of the neck and little hot spot area above the leg in the white.

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    Change to following settings to these points from original settings: exposure -.50, contrast 0, white -5, black 0, clarity 0 and vibrance +50. Leaning to lifting exposure up some though. Thoughts? And thank you for the assistance.

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    A high contrast image like this is difficult. (It went even higher on the RP.) Every image is different but I'll start from the standard LR settings (no Auto anything) by first bringing down the Highlights, then increasing the Shadows (lightening them) to whatever extent necessary. Looking at the histogram, Ill bring the Blacks to the left if needed, stretching out a little more detail in the darks. I won't usually touch contrast. Then tweak exposure if needed and re-tweak all the sliders -- each move affects all the others.

    The goal is to get a good histogram at the two ends. If it's low in contrast, I'll use Clarity, which often needs some Vibrance added back) then the Curve before Contrast. Both affect the midtones more then the ends. I start out with a linear curve but not sure if that's the default.

    If it's still high in contrast after the best effort, Nik's Detail Extractor in PS is the next step, along with masked adjustments to different areas -- Curves is the most flexible.

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    Thanks Diane. I like your workflow on handling an image. I think I was doing that at one point but got away from it for some reason. I definitely will be going back to it. High contrast images are difficult but very rewarding when you get them right.

    Thanks for reminding about a good histogram.

    I believe the linear curve is the default.

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    The second image definite improvement. whites much improved Like the vibrant greens. Wonder about cropping some off the bottom

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    Thanks Ray. Head refection doesn't look all that great so that is a good idea.

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