Innocent Flowers Cause Loss of Mind!

[gpgold]

More from the land of the wildflower addict. Early in March I went to the Poppie Reserve ( around the time I joined this forum). A couple of weeks later a one day 630 mile sprint through Death Valley and back. Last weekend I needed to visit Tahoe for business, so I drove from L.A. (1000 miles - 20 hours in the car over three days) in order to see the Mojave in bloom and the Sierra covered with snow. On the way back I said what-the-hell I'm close (only 15 miles off the 14) and stopped back at the Poppie Reserve for some afternoon light.

http://gpgold.smugmug.com/photos/19218946-M.jpg

[SusanB]

More from the land of the wildflower addict. Early in March I went to the Poppie Reserve ( around the time I joined this forum). A couple of weeks later a one day 630 mile sprint through Death Valley and back. Last weekend I needed to visit Tahoe for business, so I drove from L.A. (1000 miles - 20 hours in the car over three days) in order to see the Mojave in bloom and the Sierra covered with snow. On the way back I said what-the-hell I'm close (only 15 miles off the 14) and stopped back at the Poppie Reserve for some afternoon light.

http://gpgold.smugmug.com/photos/19218946-M.jpg
Very lovely capture with the combination of contrasting flowers and the poppies still closed but bright and colorful.

Susan

[rutt]

This picture is suffering from the out of gamut desease. Here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9657) is a diagnosis and quick fix.

I applied it to your image and got this:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/19552508-O.jpg

Note that I did nothing but move your image in and out of CMYK. Better, right? But I think the idea with flowers is to make them really pop. I think your image is too light and needs contrast. I used LAB curves and got this:

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/19553044-L.jpg

What I did was almost identical to what I did here. (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9459)

[USAIR]

Very nice shot wonderful colors too http://www.digitalgrin.com/images/smilies/clap.gif http://www.digitalgrin.com/images/smilies/clap.gif http://www.digitalgrin.com/images/smilies/clap.gif

Thanks
Fred

[gpgold]

Very lovely capture with the combination of contrasting flowers and the poppies still closed but bright and colorful.

Susan
Susan,

Thanks for your kind comments.

regards,

Gary

[gpgold]

This picture is suffering from the out of gamut desease. Here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9657) is a diagnosis and quick fix.

I applied it to your image and got this:



Note that I did nothing but move your image in and out of CMYK. Better, right? But I think the idea with flowers is to make them really pop. I think your image is too light and needs contrast. I used LAB curves and got this:



What I did was almost identical to what I did here. (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9459)Rutt,

Thanks for taking the time to show me this very helpful info. I have trying to teach myself photoshop from some books over the last year. Interestingly I just last week started to use the gamut warning and CMYK. I would try to get the CMYK as close as I could to original by having both on the screen.
The help on this forum has been great. I really appreciate yours.

regards,

Gary

[rutt]

Rutt,

Thanks for taking the time to show me this very helpful info. I have trying to teach myself photoshop from some books over the last year. Interestingly I just last week started to use the gamut warning and CMYK. I would try to get the CMYK as close as I could to original by having both on the screen.
The help on this forum has been great. I really appreciate yours.

regards,

Gary

I think I was ahead of myself on this topic yesterday. There are still some mysteries, but there is a lot of helpful info
here. (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9657)

In all likelyhood, we weren't seeing the same thing when we looked at these flowers, especially the originals. Still, they are too light and a steeper L curve with the light side clipped more than the dark side will help a lot.

[gpgold]

I think I was ahead of myself on this topic yesterday. There are still some mysteries, but there is a lot of helpful info
here. (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9657)

In all likelyhood, we weren't seeing the same thing when we looked at these flowers, especially the originals. Still, they are too light and a steeper L curve with the light side clipped more than the dark side will help a lot.
Rutt,

I didn't know that digital cameras had such fun with the color orange until I took my poppy shots. I have just been trying the LAB thing on some mountain sunflower shots.

I did a search but didn't find if you did a piece on USM. I wondered if there is one that shows how you decide what to apply. Your numbers were very different from what I have been using.

regards,

Gary

[rutt]

Rutt,

I did a search but didn't find if you did a piece on USM. I wondered if there is one that shows how you decide what to apply. Your numbers were very different from what I have been using.


Man, nothing but great straight men this AM. See here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9541) and here. (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9547)

[gpgold]

Man, nothing but great straight men this AM. See here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9541) and here. (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9547)
Rutt,

I just checked in for a minute (I'm at work) thanks very much for the links. I am looking forward to studing your tutorial tonight.

best regards,

Gary