First, the part you cropped is the one we meant. I already saw that the there was a really high contrast on those edges but the CA the first one you posted showed was simply too much. The one in the picture with the unsaturated reds is what I would call acceptable if I consider that it was strongly lightened from behind. The performance in terms of sharpeness is good, if not very good (see how sharp the CA is rendered
), and the bokeh looks nice and smooth.
The PS part:
I used a plugin called debarrelizer from theimagingfactory it has the main purpose to correct barrel distortion, it also offers a function to correct CA by rescaling the blue and the red channel of the picture. Anyway I would not recommend this tool, it was just my own lazieness that made me using it. Panotools does a much better job and it is free, the problem is that you have to figure out the values for your lens once. Nothing I would/could do by guessing from this image. Once you know the values for the disortion and the CA you can use them whenever you have a picture taken with this Lens. Explanations here (panotools in general):
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/Image_Techniques/Barrel_Distortion_Correction_01.htm
and here (see "Next Step: Correcting Color Fringing I"):
http://www.caldwellphotographic.com/TutorialsDistortionAndColorFringing.html
After correcting the CA as good as possible with debarrelizer, I was not really satisfied with the result, I applied the ICC profile and some of the corrections from the action. After that I saturated the reds (as you sugested) and shifted some of the greens that occured because of the Color correction to yellow (both) with the hue/saturation tool of PS. Finally run it through a brilliance/warmth filter from nik multimedia, maybe there is a free action out there that could do the same. However this last step was not too important.
Dominic
OK..how did you know to do that or what to do. Your image for a
start has MUCH more life than mine. And what is this product and
when do you use it.
also what do you think of the job the lens did. don't foget it had
resonably strong light behind it.
Thanks
rick
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