I took this a while back and think i may have even posted it in the landscape forum. i had it printed to 24". the print turned out poor due to my postprocessing, so when i found it today i figured i'd give it another shot and totally reworked it. i left the original compositon. but i did my noise reduction and sharpening a lot differently. after playing with it for a while and messing with saturation and warmth, that totally changed too.
so how did i do? be interested to see everyone comments on this one.
D300, 18-200VR at 70mm, f/11, 2.5s, ISO 640.
i now know that ISO 640 is no good in this type of situation and contributed to the problems i had to fix in PP.(noise) it was the first time i ever attempted anything like this and i was trying lots of stuff. unfortunately this was one of the better compositions and i deleted all ISO 200 shots due to problems:o
thanks for looking and i appreciate your feedback!
Harold, I think it's gorgeous-I went on your previouis post to see the before- but unless they are side by side I suck at that. Anyway I don't mind the shoreline .I like the colors and I can see noise but -whatever.
thanks guys. denise, the biggest difference between the two is on the original when i applied the NR, i erased it from the area on the shoreline and the lighthouse. you could see the marks where i erased it and it wasnt pretty. not as noticable to me then until i saw the print. wow, it was ugly.
so you can still see noise in this one? oh well, back to the drawing board!!
Hi Mr H - grab yourself a copy of RawTherapee - its a raw converter that is very good at luminace and colour noise reduction - will work with your d300 files - have a look at the thread with ALS south beach shot - that had a noise reduction challenge with it , it was shot at 6400 - my repost was done with this software and very quick and dirty - so with the raw file I am sure you could improve evn more....
Harold - Thanks for sharing your journey with this image. I also checked at your other Hillsboro images at the Landscape forum; it was really interesting to see the images and how you kept working the scene.
It is most encouraging to see how you continued to work the scene and learn from your previous attempts. Somewhere I read recently that we should expect to go back and back again to scenes or situations to try to create the image we really want and that matches our vision.
Thanks
Gail
Maybe it's just my monitor, but I prefer the colors in the original. It has a sea green quality and richness to it that I like - even if MAYBE a little more saturation than needed - but actually to me, fine as posted. I can see the noise - but recall the days of grainy black and white photos where the grain gave it a mood.... Maybe you could actually use this to some artistic advantage in photoshop somehow.....
Good thread. As I read more and more about post-processing, I'm going back through my files, too. Someone recommended Real World Camera Raw, and I ordered it - great book for establishing a post-processing workflow!
Harold, this is a beautiful shot -- well worth printing and framing. I hope you don't mind my playing around with some gradients. I'm not sure I would alter your version for print; just wanted to experiment a bit.
Motif: Hillsboro Light
