Misty Dawn on Derwentwater

[Ken Rennie]

RAW file upload
https://we.tl/t-mHiQpWT96W

This is both a trial to see if I can embed a link to a RAW file into a post and an opportunity to give everyone an opportunity to process an image that took me 3 years to tackle. Ken

 

[JimFox]

It looks like it went well Ken with the upload, and wow... what a fantastic view!

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Here is my take on this Ken.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Here is my take on this Ken.

View attachment 14603

Thanks Jameel.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Ok, here is my take on this one Ken. I used my normal work flow and came up with a darker and warmer rendering.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Too rich for me Ben but as I said at the start it took me 3 years to produce an image that looked ok to me. Extreme expose to the right and low contrast images like this loose their delicacy easily which, for me, is their appeal. Ken

 

[Ben Egbert]

Right Ken, and I am sort of the opposite, so these sorts of exercises will show the various ways to interpret a scene.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Right Ken, and I am sort of the opposite, so these sorts of exercises will show the various ways to interpret a scene.

Ben on re-reading my comment it can read that I am being critical, not so. I would not post it for people to process it if I was not prepared to see renderings that are totally different from my attempt.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Hey Ken, I did not take it that way at all. We are good.

 

[Amy Nelson]

I came up with two different versions of this.

The standard blue tones:

and a more dramatic B & W:

 

[Ben Egbert]

Two good ones Amy. I think I like blue best.

 

[Amy Nelson]

Two good ones Amy. I think I like blue best.

Thanks Ben, I like your more daring color a lot.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I can't find much wrong with this, Ken. I just darkened a bit under gamma correction.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Good one douglas

 

[Ken Rennie]

Douglas did you just "darken" my jpeg or did you use the RAW file? Ken

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Douglas did you just "darken" my jpeg or did you use the RAW file? Ken

Like I said, this doesn't need much work if any. I played around with a number of things but thought the gamma correction under exposure down to 90 seemed to work the best. I did it on the jpeg file.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Like I said, this doesn't need much work if any. I played around with a number of things but thought the gamma correction under exposure down to 90 seemed to work the best. I did it on the jpeg file.

I am happy with the final version Douglas, my bright version or your darker one probably just depends upon how bright your monitor is or whether you are looking on a light or dark background. However I don't understand "gamma correction under exposure down to 90". If I was going to darken this I woud apply a curve with the midde pulled down to taste probably using luminosity mode to stop the saturation increasing too much. Is this much the same thing? Ken

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I am happy with the final version Douglas, my bright version or your darker one probably just depends upon how bright your monitor is or whether you are looking on a light or dark background. However I don't understand "gamma correction under exposure down to 90". If I was going to darken this I woud apply a curve with the midde pulled down to taste probably using luminosity mode to stop the saturation increasing too much. Is this much the same thing? Ken

A gamma correction only affects the darker tones. Below is an article describing how it works and why it corrects for what the camera sees and converts it to what the eye sees. In photoshop do: image>adjustments>exposure>gamma correction.

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/gamma-correction.htm

 

[Ken Rennie]

A gamma correction only affects the darker tones. Below is an article describing how it works and why it corrects for what the camera sees and converts it to what the eye sees. In photoshop do: image>exposure>gamma correction.

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/gamma-correction.htm

Thank you Douglas, I am always happy to learn. Ken

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

Here is my try! Beautiful image Ken :O