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I've been taking photos in rainstorms as well with an umbrella; I know how tough it can be doing this during inclement weather. Your picture is especially nice.
 
Hi Fred,

Judging by the amount of water in the boats, that must have been a decent downpour.

Your image is beautiful, are you willing to share your Post Processing technique, I'd be very interested in knowing how you went about enhancing your photo.
Cheers,
John
 
Monet watercolour of the highest order!!

Thane

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In between the Hour Glass
and the lens of a secondhand camera
a dog barks orders to troops
lining a battlefield
of posies and poppy,

the diecast setting of a model
standing aloft, aloof
the rain pelting an icy tin roof
suggests the shutterspeed needs to be fast
to capture the enemy.
 
Thanks guys. So pleased you all like it,
John the processing went like this:

First i processed the image in LightZone using the relight function set at normal. Then again relight using multiply at 3/4 strenghth. Then again relight using screen function at full strength. Then The hue and saturation function setting the vibrancy slider at 20 and the luminosity slider at 10.

Then I used the Clarity function setting the slider only to the first notch (10%)

Then the polarizer function at 30% applied only to shadows by setting the shadows funtion. Then the Crisp funcion set at 20% at normal setting. Then the contrast funtion at 40% at normal setting. Saved to desktop at full size.

Then took the original unedited image again and tonemapped in Photomatix in such a way that it is not too much over the top but rather more natural.

Then opened LiveQuartz (a nice little piece of editing software for Mac) and uploaded both the Lightzone edited and the Photomatix edited images.

I selected the LightZone image to be the top layer and the Photomatix image to be the bottom layer. Then with the erazer brush I painted out the parts on the LightZone image where I wanted the Photomatix image to show through. Then I resized the resulting image to 800 pixels at the longest side in the 2/3 format with another little editor for Mac called PhotoComplete and added a border. (At all times I am saving in TIFF right throughout the entire process)

Then uploaded into LightZone again and sharpened a little and also in the relight function at normal setting increased the detail a little. Then converted to JPG and saved the final image to my desktop. Voila! :)
Regards
Fred
 
Fred, i really like the image - would you mind posting the original image as it would be interesting to see the impact of your processing

ShrewsCam
 
You now have IMHO a strong and wonderful image that is very enjoyable to view and holds my attention. It is good to see a image so well balanced with a strong path leading into a desirable place to pause and then a nice way leading out too.

Thanks for sharing this and the processing that you did too. It is nice when I see an image where someone used the darkroom available to them in such a way.
Kudos to you on this creation.

I bet this prints out nicely.
JustFred said:
E1 with 11-22mm
A loch somewhere near Aberfoyle in Scotland.

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KimR

'The very fact that I find myself in agreement with you other minds perturbs me, so that I hunt for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least I reached the same conclusions by a different route.'

 
ShrewsCam said:
Fred, i really like the image - would you mind posting the original image as it would be interesting to see the impact of your processing

ShrewsCam
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Sure SC, my pleasure. Here is the original. I took the original ORF file and did nothing to it except reduce the size to 800 pixels at the widest side and convert to JPG. So this is exactly how the RAW file looks like as it came out the camera.



and the processed version again for comparison.



Regards
Fred

PS. Thanks for your nice comment too Kim.
 
Wow--hardly any trouble at all!

But the results are stunning!
JustFred said:
Thanks guys. So pleased you all like it,
John the processing went like this:

First i processed the image in LightZone using the relight function set at normal. Then again relight using multiply at 3/4 strenghth. Then again relight using screen function at full strength. Then The hue and saturation function setting the vibrancy slider at 20 and the luminosity slider at 10.

Then I used the Clarity function setting the slider only to the first notch (10%)

Then the polarizer function at 30% applied only to shadows by setting the shadows funtion. Then the Crisp funcion set at 20% at normal setting. Then the contrast funtion at 40% at normal setting. Saved to desktop at full size.

Then took the original unedited image again and tonemapped in Photomatix in such a way that it is not too much over the top but rather more natural.

Then opened LiveQuartz (a nice little piece of editing software for Mac) and uploaded both the Lightzone edited and the Photomatix edited images.

I selected the LightZone image to be the top layer and the Photomatix image to be the bottom layer. Then with the erazer brush I painted out the parts on the LightZone image where I wanted the Photomatix image to show through. Then I resized the resulting image to 800 pixels at the longest side in the 2/3 format with another little editor for Mac called PhotoComplete and added a border. (At all times I am saving in TIFF right throughout the entire process)

Then uploaded into LightZone again and sharpened a little and also in the relight function at normal setting increased the detail a little. Then converted to JPG and saved the final image to my desktop. Voila! :)
Regards
Fred
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Liz
 
Beautiful image you did. I will bookmark this post and try some of your processing one day. Thank you for sharing!
 
That's amazing. Thanks for sharing your technique & showing us the original photo.
 
Fred, blimey that is a fair improvement from the original, living in the UK we have a fair bit of the year looking like the original picture and I clearly need to work harder on my pp as the results clearly are worth it.

Thanks for the info

ShrewsCam
 
I like the strong colours and contrast with the nice sharpness.
Straight from the camera or with postprocessing?
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Yes, indeed. Very generous of you JustFred to share your techniques, and your excellent image.
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Terry
 
Thanks Fred for the explanation--I think I can come up with a similar process using Photoshop CS5--you did a really good job with your pic.
Cheers,
John
 
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