Custom tone curves compared
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I guess it's been a slow day for me. I've been experimenting with custom tone curves, loading them 1 at a time into the camera and shooting the same scene for comparison. The normal tone curve is also included as a baseline. Thought it might be helpful for someone undecided on which custom curve to choose, and don't have the time or patients to do what I did (a special hello to all those unregistered lurkers
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At the moment, my hosting gallery Fotopic.net seems to be down, so I've uploaded them temporarily on Geocities. They don't like direct linking - so you'll have to copy/paste address into browser.
Other camera settings - JPEG large fine, Auto WB, sRGB Ia, med-low sharpening. Images resized in PS7, no further post processing otherwise.
These curves presented approximately in the order taken (judge by the shadow cast on the building).
Normal tone curve - use as baseline
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/curve-norm.jpg
Normal + 0.3EV
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/ ... orm0.3.jpg
Normal + 0.7EV
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/ ... orm0.7.jpg
Alfredo 3 curve - slightly brighter than normal, 244 cutoff (NB: 255 is max light value).
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/ ... lfredo.jpg
White Wedding v3.5 - +0.5EV over normal with highlights tapered.
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/ ... wed3.5.jpg
Provia v3.4 - supposedly closely matches low contrast tone, but slightly brighter, and with highlights tapered.
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/ ... via3.4.jpg
Normal - the sun moved quickly, so I took another just to standardise
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/curve-norm2.jpg
BH Film curve - a new, very high contrast curve aims to match the look of positive film (shadow details completely lost)
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/ ... hfilm1.jpg
If you want any further details, don't hesitate to ask. If you're wanting to find out more about each curve and where to get them, let me know too.
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At the moment, my hosting gallery Fotopic.net seems to be down, so I've uploaded them temporarily on Geocities. They don't like direct linking - so you'll have to copy/paste address into browser.
Other camera settings - JPEG large fine, Auto WB, sRGB Ia, med-low sharpening. Images resized in PS7, no further post processing otherwise.
These curves presented approximately in the order taken (judge by the shadow cast on the building).
Normal tone curve - use as baseline
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/curve-norm.jpg
Normal + 0.3EV
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/ ... orm0.3.jpg
Normal + 0.7EV
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/ ... orm0.7.jpg
Alfredo 3 curve - slightly brighter than normal, 244 cutoff (NB: 255 is max light value).
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/ ... lfredo.jpg
White Wedding v3.5 - +0.5EV over normal with highlights tapered.
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/ ... wed3.5.jpg
Provia v3.4 - supposedly closely matches low contrast tone, but slightly brighter, and with highlights tapered.
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/ ... via3.4.jpg
Normal - the sun moved quickly, so I took another just to standardise
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/curve-norm2.jpg
BH Film curve - a new, very high contrast curve aims to match the look of positive film (shadow details completely lost)
http://www.geocities.com/choicebro2004/ ... hfilm1.jpg
If you want any further details, don't hesitate to ask. If you're wanting to find out more about each curve and where to get them, let me know too.