Thanks to everyone for comments on this image. I re-worked it a bit and tried to tone down the blue channel in the creek area, without losing the black shadow areas. Its a definite improvement. All comments welcome. Regards.
Posted by Steve Sieren on October 22, 2008 at 12:24 AM
I do like the blue tones very much but it might need a little more warming to it.
Posted by Rick Dunn on October 22, 2008 at 10:16 AM
I think you're moving in the right direction, Michael. I agree with Steve regarding the additional work. Overall, it still feels very cool and blue/cyan
If you look at the highlights in the water, they should be white or almost white; they instead have a very discernible blue/cyan cast. Obviously depends on the look you're trying to create, but I added quite a bit of red and yellow in color balance, and desaturated the blues substantially and the cyans almost completely, and liked what I saw. It brought out some warmth in the foliage, balanced the water color while still leaving the warm/cool interaction in tact.
Hi Michael, good seeing you again at the NPN gathering a few weeks back. I saw the original and you have definitely made good progress. I like the scene very much but agree it's still a little blue. I'll add that on some images I have had decent luck using the Photoshop Photo Filter and using the 81B filter. You can adjust the density if needed. You might need/want to mask the folliage if it warms it up too much. Anyways, just another tool for the arsenal. Like they say, 100 ways to skin a cat ;-) Definitely true sometimes in PS.
Michael, this is a follow up comment to your email that I also replied to this morning. As Jason has stated here, as well as I did in my email earlier, there really are a multitude of ways to obtain satisfactory outcomes with good original images, clean scans, and of course PS post processing. As you work with your scanner and PS more and more your will be able to fine tune out some of the anamolies that are associated with the various films/transparencies we all use. For me it was the need to be able to see the issues correctly before making the corrections, Truthfully, I knew what knobs to turn, but many times I did not see the real problem that required the corrections. We are all here to help out with ideas too.
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4 repliesIf you look at the highlights in the water, they should be white or almost white; they instead have a very discernible blue/cyan cast. Obviously depends on the look you're trying to create, but I added quite a bit of red and yellow in color balance, and desaturated the blues substantially and the cyans almost completely, and liked what I saw. It brought out some warmth in the foliage, balanced the water color while still leaving the warm/cool interaction in tact.