A Certain Curvature of the Horn
Inspired by Andreas's remarkable post yesterday, I dug throught my images from Hwange last year, and found this.
Apologies to John Frederick Walker for borrowing the title of his remarkable book about the search for the Giant Sable in Angola.
Taken at Makwa Waterhole, Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe , 4th September 2011
EOS 1D MkIV
500mm F4 hand-held
F7.1, ISO 400, 1/1250, EV +0.33
Hi Ken,
it is nice that i am able to inspire you.Nice shot,the light was not really on your side.the comp works well,i will try to get more sharpness on the antelope.The colors on the antelope look a bit blueish (darks).
So i tried to open in PS and checked with eyedropper et voila it showed a slight cast.So i reworked the stuff . WDYT?
Hope you do not mind?
Andreas
Ken - light looks like it was tough. I too like the comp and the drinking pose. The repost by Andreas takes it up a notch.
TFS,
Rachel
Plus one hereOriginally Posted by Rachel Hollander
TFS
Thanks everybody.
Andreas,
If possible could you send ne a PM or Email explaining what you did, as without doubt your repost renders the colours in particular the blaks much better.
Like the clean surroundings and the colors in Andreas's is a huge improvement...Looks like it could use a CCW rotation as the waterlinne seems to lean to the right!
Just realised that as I am using my old computer, I had no calibration for the monitor, silly me!
Hi Ken,
just a short info what i did,not with PM.Simply to show all the viewers who are interested in that kind of problem.First of you do not need a calibrated monitor (screen).The calibrated one makes it easier to see,for sure.But the only thing that is not lying is the eyedropper tool in PS,even if your eyes are tired.
If i am not sure about the colors i do the following. Make threshold layer (set 50%) look for the darkest and the brightest part of the image.Set at each point ( B+D) a color sampler point.Delete the threshold layer.
Go to levels (set to color) or curves layer and choose the black eyedropper for the dark color sampler point .Just hover over that point and klick et voila it works .if you want to use it not on the whole image,just use a mask. That`s all,nothing magic.
In this image i used the bridge over the nose as the area to make neutral.
And as you can see it is working.
Cheers Andreas
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