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Hi Jon ... this one is looking like a " real Bear " !!!
Super cool specimen !
Comp and pose is nice , as is the clear view and the almost clean backdrop .
Just like to raise a question ... why so dark overall ??
And you seem to like all those blues / magentas and reds ....??
Nice one , TFS Andreas
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Originally Posted by
Andreas Liedmann
Hi Jon ... this one is looking like a " real Bear " !!!
Super cool specimen !
Comp and pose is nice , as is the clear view and the almost clean backdrop .
Just like to raise a question ... why so dark overall ??
And you seem to like all those blues / magentas and reds ....??
Nice one , TFS Andreas
It dooesn't look dark to me - it was very dull (ISO 16,000) blues magentas reds? Looks ok to me ????
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Fine Jon ...
Must be my taste and my screen .
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Hi Jon. menacing looking bear. I like the image a lot, very nice setting. For ISO 16,000 this is outstanding. Thank you for sharing.
Joe Przybyla
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Andreas, after consideration I can see what you are going on about but I still think the colours are not far out, it was almost freezing and somewhere between 1am and 4am.
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Hey Jon .... all ok for me .
It is your view about the color , I see it differently .... and most important it is your image and you have to like it in the first place , regardless what others think !!!!!!!
Give me a minute or 5 ... I will post my color view .....
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Ok good Jon ... surprised that you now " accept " the colors .
Not saying that I´m " correct" with my edits ... as colors can be a matter of taste in general .
For your info , I have used three adjustment layers
1. brightness contrast with 10+ brightness ( inverted red channel as lumo mask)
2 . curves adjustment layer with edited red and blue channel ( color blend mode ) , set two color pickers in the bear ( breast and flank ) and neutralized these two point samples ( 5x5 pix)
3. Hue / saturation adjustment layer .... desaturated the blues/cyan/ greens ( forgot the values ) , changed the hues of red and yellow
Done
Cheers Andreas
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Originally Posted by
Andreas Liedmann
Ok good Jon ... surprised that you now " accept " the colors
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Not saying that I´m " correct" with my edits ... as colors can be a matter of taste in general .
For your info , I have used three adjustment layers
1. brightness contrast with 10+ brightness ( inverted red channel as lumo mask)
2 . curves adjustment layer with edited red and blue channel ( color blend mode ) , set two color pickers in the bear ( breast and flank ) and neutralized these two point samples ( 5x5 pix)
3. Hue / saturation adjustment layer .... desaturated the blues/cyan/ greens ( forgot the values ) , changed the hues of red and yellow
Done
Cheers Andreas
Don't be surprised, I thought I was correct but you made me reflect and I was wrong - simple as that!
What you did sounds rather sophisticated compared to what I did but I will try to work out in practical terms, it obviously worked rather welll!
I have been playing with TK and masking masks and such like, I think I am learning a little more- you have given me something to think about, also I have recently been experimenting with curves and channels.
Good dialogue - thank you much appreciated.
Just as a separate topic - why do I not see any submissions from you in the macro forum? I am sure you must have done some albeit with the zoom and TC??
Last edited by Jonathan Ashton; 02-27-2021 at 03:23 PM.
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Jon ... nothing for the macro world , sorry .
For you it might sound sophisticated , it's not quiet simple actually .
Basically it is placing color picker points on two or three in the image that should be somehow neutral or close to neutral .... add a curves adjustment layer ( color blend mode ) . Use the hand tool inside of the curves panel , choose the desired color channel (i.e.blue) in the panel , go with the hand tool over the desired color picker point , klick and drag the point ( while controlling the color values ) into the right direction to neutralize the colors . Do the same thing with another channel ( if needed ) in the same curve adjustment layer . Done !!!
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Beautiful capture I did notice a prominent blue cast at first and was ok with it. After looking at Andreas a definite improvement and more realistic and reading the dialogue maybe I learned something. Great at ISO 16,000 TFS a great capture.
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Hi Jon -- very late on this, but I really liked the subject . Looks massive and strong.
Nice discussion above. I can see a lot of colour cast of blue and magenta in your OP but Andreas RP sorts out the issues.
Keep them coming.
TFS !