[Rhodes22-list] Rhodes at Night - Second attempt

[stan]

One of my great pleasures of this business is that it attracts so many 
geniuses.

thanks John - I'll get back to you - a customer is coming to pick up

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "elle" <watermusic38 at yahoo.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Rhodes at Night - Second attempt


> 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
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
>> Lake Sinclair, GA
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