[Rhodes22-list] Rhodes at Night - Second attempt

[elle]

Looks great, John.

What did we ever do w/o Photoshop & zip bags..

;^)

elle
--- John Lock <jlock at relevantarts.com> 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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> s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
> Lake Sinclair, GA
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We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.

 1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"   (Lady in Red)