Before and after

I am just looking at a post in one of the challenge galleries and there was a little speculation about how an effect, on a trully excellent shot was achieved.

I would love to see some before and afters for how far some of your photos are enhanced with post processing
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can you see the improvement in my pictures...me neither!

How about an improvement (hopefully) on a truly lousy shot?







Additionally, I have just loaded for the first time the RAW firmware hack to the SDcard and tried it on an ISO 800 image.

The first is the best result I could get from the .jpg file, and the second is the RAW file processed in RawTherapee and subsequently in PSPX1.





Rgds
Keith

filibuster (Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, UK)
http://www.pbase.com/filibuster

gsbrooks said:

I would love to see some before and afters for how far some of your
photos are enhanced with post processing

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This is an interesting video (not mine) what you can do with photoshop:
http://www.trendhure.com/framer.php?id=1481

thanks for these - the diffence in shade on the first picture is amazing and the lack of noise on the guitar on the 2nd is as good a reason to shoot raw that I have seen.
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My pictures http://www.pbase.com/gsb
can you see the improvement in my pictures...me neither!

Here is the before Guitar with a little Neat Image and then an Edge Sharpen.

I also touched up some of the small defects. I think it looks pretty good without all the hassle of the RAW



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Bill S.

gsbrooks said:

thanks for these - the diffence in shade on the first picture is
amazing and the lack of noise on the guitar on the 2nd is as good a
reason to shoot raw that I have seen.

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I think the RAW picture already had some noise reduction applied. Of course you can do the same with the jpeg.

that is very impressive
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My pictures http://www.pbase.com/gsb
can you see the improvement in my pictures...me neither!

Bill, that’s rather impressive considering you were working from a reduced image file. If perhaps just a tad overdone to my liking (that overly smooth porcelain look?) But I am impressed with your efforts. It shows that printable results can be extracted from high iso image files with careful processing.

Harvester you are correct that a degree of noise reduction had been applied with my modest attempt. What I did enjoy about working with the raw file in ‘Therapee’ was the ease I was able to adjust WB and reproduce the colour tones exactly to that of the guitar I see in front of me now (shot under the artificial conditions of low energy light bulbs!)
Rgds
Keith

filibuster (Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, UK)
http://www.pbase.com/filibuster

Here's one I did from the first jpg.

Nice thread Im keeping my eye on this one.
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