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Color decisions or what do you prefer?

Postby Hlop on Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:14 pm

Hi,

Returning back to Blackheath images and trying to make them look better. What do you think of them:
Original:
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Velvia Style copy:
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Postby big pix on Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:19 pm

number 2 has much more life and a better looking image. Good contrast and color saturation..........

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Postby AlistairF on Sat Apr 02, 2005 6:24 pm

Hlop, Velvia is an improvment. Try adding an Unsharp mask of around 20% with a radious of 50 to perk it up a little.

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Postby mudder on Sat Apr 02, 2005 8:59 pm

The Velvia version seems to have much stronger colour and contrast, was the Velvia applied via a custom curve in camera or "simulated" in PP?

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Postby Hlop on Sun Apr 03, 2005 1:11 pm

Thanks everyone for your opinions

Actually, first one looks more natural - it was about 5pm, very clodly, dim light. Second one looks more saturated, contrast and bit brighter. So, its natural vs. pleasant I'd say :)

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I applied Velvia action downloaded from internet. Probably I've got it here - http://bleicher.home.comcast.net/
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