Pretty impressive the amount of 'hidden' detail the RX1 can yield

Wow, amazing difference. Well executed pp, still natural looking.

good one!

salla30 said:

still natural looking.

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Indeed it is. But I could tell same about details of the image itself, not only DR, in case of RX100 I use. I can crop up to 50-30% of the image size (taking width or height) and it still looks good.

Sorry it's not clear.

You are saying you may get the same results from RX100? Maybe not quite as good

I have also the RX100, i think the shadows would come out noisier/patchier than this.

Could you give a quick overview the steps you took? Also what software did you use?

Thanks.

Get thee another subject for 'sick' looking shots please. I profusely protest! Rehab?

GeorgeP256 said:

GeorgeP256 wrote:

Could you give a quick overview the steps you took? Also what software did you use?

Thanks.

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Hi George. The original was shot in Raw and I processed it in Adobe's ACR converter. I pushed up the shadows to the max, and increased the exposure a little as well. To get detail back in the sky, I pulled down the highlights a lot, and the whites just a little (I was lucky that the sky wasn't too blown out). I also pulled the blacks down and increased contrast and clarity a bit since images start looking flat if you do big changes to the shadows.

Next, I brought it into Photoshop (16bit) and used Nik software from Google (Nik Collection) to do a little more refinement. I used Nik Viveza to do some targeted lightening of the face and bring out more detail in the sky. Then I went into Nik Color Efex to soften the skin a little (to counter-act the harshness of the clarity slider) and to add a subtle vignette.

Sounds like a lot of work, but it's actually quite fast with a little practice....

Thanks! The results are well worth the work!

I love this about cameras today. You can save shots that would have gone straight to the trash bin only a few years ago. Sensor tech is booming now.

MichalLeder said:

MichalLeder wrote:

MichalLeder said:

still natural looking.

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Indeed it is. But I could tell same about details of the image itself, not only DR, in case of RX100 I use. I can crop up to 50-30% of the image size (taking width or height) and it still looks good.

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Just took my RX100 out today. There are many things I like about it ... some things more than the RX1. But it doesn't recover details like the RX1.

that's the fat sister?

Way back, someone asked if Noy had a sister, and you replied, yes, but ......................

So, I seized another opportunity for a joke.