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Postby Geoff M on Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:11 pm

For crituque, the shirt is a bit grubby, you know how kids are!!
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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:14 pm

Geoff - the little one looks real happy and it is a very nicely captured pic. My one piece of advice would be to give it a little more contrast to increase the punch :D
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Postby johnd on Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:17 pm

I agree with Chris. There's a great mixture of colour in this shot. Bump the contrast right up and it'll leap off the screen at you.

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Postby Geoff M on Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:23 pm

I agree with your comments, but the image appears much 'flatter' when viewing on the forum than it does when viewing in its original location on my PC. Anybody have any suggestion as to why this could be?

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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:59 pm

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This is a quick and dirty curves adjustment - still not correct but with more punch than the posted version - hope you don’t mind :D
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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:01 pm

Geoff - it could be that your monitor needs calibrating as the image did appear to be a little better on my monitor when dragged from the thread to my desktop. :wink:
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Postby robboh on Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:02 pm

Chris, can you tell us basically what you did with the curves to punch up the pic?? The original looked quite dark to me, so did you bring up the midtones at all (~128 on the curve)??
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Postby sirhc55 on Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:46 pm

robboh wrote:Chris, can you tell us basically what you did with the curves to punch up the pic?? The original looked quite dark to me, so did you bring up the midtones at all (~128 on the curve)??


I locked the midpoint in the curves dialog and then played with the 1/4 and 3/4 points one going down and the other up - not sure which was which - hope this helps :D
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Postby robboh on Tue Jul 12, 2005 5:02 pm

Hmmmm.

Maybe this lends credibility to the comments that some people make that the D70 doesnt actually underexpose, more that the way it deals with contrast leads to photos 'looking' underexposed.
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Postby Geoff M on Tue Jul 12, 2005 7:52 pm

Thankyou all for your comments/advice, much appreciated.

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Postby robboh on Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:50 pm

Hmmm. I had a go as well. Locked the midpoint, dropped at 1/4 and raised at 3/4. Ended up with something similar, but had to raise the brightness as well to get a similar looking pic :?

By the way Geoff, nice pic! :)
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