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Rescaling For Visual Unity - December 20, 2008
Started December 20, 2008 @ 12:19pm by Kel
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Kel
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| Rescaling For Visual Unity - December 20, 2008 | December 20, 2008 @ 12:19pm | In This Digital Darkroom episode Craig works with rescaling to achieve more visual unity in the image. Craig also uses the Curves Adjustment Layer to get rid of a color cast and to create more color depth in the image. Craig shows a method for blurring water that can lead to blurring that looks more like in camera, long exposure blurring. Craig also works with a blank layer, painting with black and soft light blending mode to add even more depth to the image.
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Stephen Issell
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| December 20, 2008 @ 3:48pm | Well Craig, another insightful Vid cast.
I had to have a laugh though as I thought back to all the people that have said "Stephen, that wasn't that colour and where did that twig/log go".
I have a long way to go before I get all the red lines worked out but giving an image more pop is something that I have always tried to do.
Sometimes I over do things but that is ok as one finds the balance.
You have shown a different way of giving that pop feeling by using the soft light method and I will be giving that a go.
I have been using the unsharp 15/50 method on different layer then paint the areas that I felt could do with more zing/contrast/depth.
Rescaling is new and another method that I must explore.
Thanks again Craig, you give me confidence to continue exploring and opening up my creative self.
Stephen. Aus.
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Wes
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| December 20, 2008 @ 5:09pm | Whoa, Craig, what a powerful lesson this has been. At the moment I am stunned by all of the techniques and final results that you have achieved. Could I do it on my own, I doubt it. But, I know what the possibilities are, and that helps a lot. A great point to remember is that it is digital and experimetation is the key.
Thanks much,
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| Bright areas | December 20, 2008 @ 5:09pm | | Craig, the vid cast on the river photo was most enlightening. In particular, I noted the final soft light, selective, layer. I had used soft light in this way but generally brushed it on a larger area, and at more opacity, and didn't quite identify its use in the way you were so selectively increasing contrast in many places, and that was a revelation. The scaling idea here too is a revelation. I would just never have thought about doing that, but it's a great tool. In this particular photo, what still would bother me, and what often bothers me in various scenes, are the smallish very bright areas in, say, particularly, the grasses on the shore. What I would tend to do almost immediately is clone those out (which takes an awful lot of time) because they just make my eyes jump there. I would also tend to be bothered by the relative size of the very dark area at upper left, but it seems that you are not in this case. Thanks for a most enjoyable presentation. Now I just have to try to remember some of that stuff when I'm working. Mitch |
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Bruce
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| December 20, 2008 @ 8:08pm | Craig,
Great vid cast. It is very instructive to have a Daily Critique and then follow up with a Digital Darkroom. It helps me understand how you would approach finalizing an image. I have spent a lot of time with you trying to learn the capture side of the equation and now this episode helps me see how you approach things in the darkroom. This has inspired me to go back to some of my images and rework them.
Thanks for being our teacher!
Bruce Bader
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| December 20, 2008 @ 8:38pm | Really liked this vidcast.
Having more time overall, along with the more single topic focus of the photoshop work, really makes the case for having the daily critique of the image itself and then this digital darkroom focus on techiques to strengthen the image is great.
I made a comment on the daily critique of this image and you adressed it well here. My concern in rescaling is the added need to focus on not only the impact it would have oversall but the details of making it work. You really focused on that part in this cast.
Where you seemed to disagree with my opinion was the commnet about water flow. I think we weren't taking about the same part of water course. I was focused on the right side of the rock upagainst the shore. Not the "white water" flow on the left side which I had no issure with and really liked the approach you demonstrated. The rescaling done in the photoshop darkroom vidcast really works on all levels.
The soft light blending layer was also very instructuive and I will certainly try it on my shots. Really amazed at the effect with such a low opacity. Excellent reminder on building up the changes versus the heavy one step.
Thanks Craig.
Bob |
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Craig
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| Thank you! | December 20, 2008 @ 9:45pm |
Hi Everybody,
Thank you for the very supportive feedback. And Bob thank you for being so generous here... you are right... I misunderstood you but it gave me a chance to make the point about comparisons to the original capture that no one is going to see and I do think that inner dialoge can be a weakness in the editing for lots of photographers....me especially because I struggle with perfectionism. And you are right about that area above the rock...thats the area of the image that would take a lot of time at high magnification to achieve a realistic blend. Thanks so much for being here Bob and for the extra feedback..... Craig
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
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Bob
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| Scaling | December 20, 2008 @ 10:10pm | Craig: Have to agree with all that this was chock full of incredible techniques. So much so I have had to back and forth and take notes. But I am struggling with the idea of scaling. No image is perfect and everytime I take a shot and then look at it later I of course see things that need as you say "digital gardening". But moving elements or resizing them . . . hmm, I don't know. Many years ago when you taught me how to use a 4x5 you always warned me to look at the corners. And for me the resolution of that rock should have been made in the capture. This is a big question and certainly not one that can be answered or resolved in an e-mail or discussion thread. Perhaps we can continue this discussion at Zion next year. We all manipulate our shots in the digital world. We add or subtract contrast, boost color, sharpen, etc to take a RAW image and bring out the vision we saw at capture. It is truly one of the reasons I like digital over film. But I am just at odds with this manipulation and perhaps it is the baggage of the 4x5 and I just need to get over it. Again a darkroom full of incredible techniques and I thank you again for everything you bring to this site and your teaching.
Bob |
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| Wow !!! | December 20, 2008 @ 11:59pm | Craig, I am new to this site and have been blown away by the techniques and philosopy demonstrated by the facilitators and this video is no exception.
You have given me so much here both in learning and inspiration; I thank you.
I also support you philosophy in your art work. If you were documenting a fact, fine leave it as taken but art is art whether in a wet or dry darkroom or on canvas in oil or water. Its what you see in your minds eye and want to impart to the viewer thats important.
Great work mate !! |
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Kevin Kienlein
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| December 21, 2008 @ 6:24am | Craig,
i very much enjoyed this tutorial... it is very helpful to see how things are done, even in a 'quick' fashion.
I now need to watch the video and work on some of my images to sruce them up...
Thank you and all the best for a Merry Christmas from the still 'frigid' north, currently -21 celcius! BURR... kk
Kevin Kienlein - www.lookingatyou.ca - Vernon, B.C. Canada
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| vid cast digital darkroom | December 25, 2008 @ 10:51am | Craig
This was really helpful, to have you say exactly what keys you were hitting and then watch the result. Thanks for SUCH a great tutorial!
Grace
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| vid cast | April 19, 2010 @ 4:59pm | hi craig,i just signed up today to TME and have watched a couple of your digital darkroom tutorials.i feel i need to rethink alot of my own techniques as i have been enlightened by your vision and retouching skills.superbly demonstrated and executed i look forward to learning more and contributing
images myself in the not too distant future. keep up the excellent work
regards
fred
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