Reflections 3

All comments and ratings are greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I like the reflection,a litle bit dark... maybe with some bright will be better + 0.7 ev aprox not?

Thank you Mario for your rating and thoughts. You are right. This one is quite dark. I had to expose according to the sky to get any detail there and the sun was just outside of picture area. Any suggestions how to improve this in Photoshop would be very nice. (I am just beginnign to learn how to manipulate photos in PS.)

Good Monning! I would like to give you some suggestions about a digital world...

You shoot with Nikon, the same than me, the only way to give the absolute control in digital is:

1) Shoot always in raw (nef), don't forget this format is, the only one that has the complete information about the capture, is the equivalent to the film or slide.

2) Manage your photos with some software that can change parameters like this: D-LIGHTING ?only adjust the medium tones?, (works very well in advanced mode if you would like to show details in a dark areas keeping the details in a high lights)

WHITE BALANCE, EV- CONTROL are some other tools.

3) The perfect program doesn't exist, any software has good things and bad things, but I have Nikon capture and works properly (in my imho).

5) If you have changed some of this parameters you can observe that if you move directly the curves in some channel or channel RGB mode, the histogram lacks some tones(and becomes quite aggressive for the whole process ; You had better move the ev.compensation or d-lighting at the beginning of the process ,remember that moving the curves is the last and the less recommended solution

4) if you want to copy some of your best photos to big size 15??x 20?? or more, and don't loose any tone, convert to tiff 16 bits and bring to the photo lab.

5)If you convert the Raw file in Jpg whenever you change anything and save it, the file looses information every time that you save, and lost a continuous quality, therefore is important to manipulate the RAW. The Nikon Capture program give us the possibility to save as a Raw .

My sequence is this one: photo MLE 001.NEF if necessary to modify some things, I rename as MLE 001 mod.NEF, if you open this file appear the tings that you mod. And later on save it as TIFF.16 or 8 bits.

6) The Photoshop gives a wide range of software possibilities , such as solving the problems related about the marks produced by the dust on the sensor when changing the lens .I recommend you to buy a Photoshop book according to your level, there are a many them. Sorry for my huge explanation.Greetings

Thank you for a really good explanation. I shoot some photos in Nef and most in jpeg. If I try to take really good quality, then I use Nef - just like you suggested. In my version of Photoshop (7.0) it is rather tedious to load the photos trough Nikon view to the PS. (This PS. version does not support the direct loading of the D50.raw-images.

 

But for this particular shot, I tried working through all the channels and improvements, but ended anyhow into very pale results. So, I decided to keep this one as it is - and ask if someone can produce better solution and explain how to do it. :-) The water was also really dark - it resides in a small pool that is connected to the water-powermills drainage...

 

Happy photographing and greetings, too!

 

Alpo

If you can, send me the raw file by mail, and I'll try to look for a technical solution to see better and I explain how I made it...Greetings

now this is a great image!

Mario, Thank you for your kind offer. Unfortunately this was my earlier shots from time, when I did not use RAW. So, this is shot in the best settings of JPEG... Too bad, but thank you very much for your offer!

 

Steve, Thank you very much for your rating and your kind comments! I really appreciate them!

 

Alpo