[Rhodes22-list] Rhodes at Night - First attempt

[Mary Lou Troy]

Did you attach the photo?

Didn't receive it if you did.

ML


At 04:10 PM 6/6/2008, you wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>I spent 30 minutes or so making a pass at cleaning up Mike Cheung's
>photo of the R22 sitting amongst the big motor yachts.  There are
>many compelling elements in this photo and the results are pretty
>nice.  I used Adobe Photoshop CS2 for the retouching.  For those who
>want to follow along, here's what I did -
>
>1) First problem was the excessive color noise caused by the camera
>sensor grasping every photon it could to make an image.  I used the
>"Noise" filter to remove selective amounts, fiddling with the
>controls to get the noise knocked back without losing detail.
>
>2) Next challenge was how to get that nice cozy glow in the
>ports.  There was almost no data to work with in the R22 ports, so I
>had to borrow it from elsewhere.  Aha!  That yacht on the left has a
>nice glow, so I used the Clone tool to copy a portion of that glow,
>with a nice feathered edge, and stamped it into the Rhodes ports.
>
>3) Technically, the poptop should have some light in it too (if the
>lights below are on).  Once more I used the Clone tool, but selected
>a darker section to copy so it looked more shadowed.  Never saw an
>R22 with a poptop at night, so I'm totally guessing at the amount of
>light here!
>
>4) Next I started the Levels panel and brightened up the darker
>portions to bring out some detail.  Then I kicked up the midtones
>slightly so it didn't look quite so gloomy.
>
>5) I tried to do some sharpening on the image, but because of the
>background noise and the filter's affect in masking it, there wasn't
>much left for the Sharpen filter to work with.  The rigging and dock
>lines got some better definition, but that's about it.
>
>6) Lastly, I cropped off the railing in the foreground because it
>distracted from the overall composition.
>
>Stan: if you want a larger version of this for printing I can send
>you one.  I don't know how well it will print, but it's probably
>worth a try.  It's a great photo, thanks Mike Cheung!
>
>Cheers!
>
>John Lock
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