An old Harbour Walk shot
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:24 amHi all,
with version 2 of Aperture (which is what I'm using for organising and processing photos) a new RAW decoder was introduced. To say it briefly, I'm very impressed. It is a tremendous improvement over the previous version. Besides additional controls it has much better control over highlights and noise than what Aperture 1.5 used to have. Where I used to get nasty posterisation or colours when trying to recover highlights there is much more real image content now, and a very pleasing rendition. Likewise, boosting too dark areas back into life doesn't easily result in a noisy mess anymore. Apart from the extremes, tonal rendition has changed, as far as I can tell to better, esp with skin tones. A lot of washed out images from version 1.5 now come to life by simply selecting the new RAW processor.
Anyway, this sent me into a PP frenzy and I looked through a lot of older pics, especially those I had technical trouble with. Here's one from an oh so long ago Harbour Walk, that was taken in very harsh, direct sunlight (and I was too lazy to bring a flash). I managed to get much better control over highlights and shadows out of this now, and the tones look quite pleasing to me. What do you think?
Cheers
Steffen.
with version 2 of Aperture (which is what I'm using for organising and processing photos) a new RAW decoder was introduced. To say it briefly, I'm very impressed. It is a tremendous improvement over the previous version. Besides additional controls it has much better control over highlights and noise than what Aperture 1.5 used to have. Where I used to get nasty posterisation or colours when trying to recover highlights there is much more real image content now, and a very pleasing rendition. Likewise, boosting too dark areas back into life doesn't easily result in a noisy mess anymore. Apart from the extremes, tonal rendition has changed, as far as I can tell to better, esp with skin tones. A lot of washed out images from version 1.5 now come to life by simply selecting the new RAW processor.
Anyway, this sent me into a PP frenzy and I looked through a lot of older pics, especially those I had technical trouble with. Here's one from an oh so long ago Harbour Walk, that was taken in very harsh, direct sunlight (and I was too lazy to bring a flash). I managed to get much better control over highlights and shadows out of this now, and the tones look quite pleasing to me. What do you think?
Cheers
Steffen.
