I found that by selecting the sky separately and changing its saturation and color helped a bit.
Slobodan Dimitrov http://www.sdimitrovphoto.com/ On Dec 5, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Ellestad wrote:
Hi Carlos -A warm color balance would seem correct for such a late sun but the "81" correction did seem over the top. I brought the image into Photoshop and it looked like the midrange level should be increased to about 1.20. Then put in only a fraction of the red/yellow of the "81", keeping the levels andsaturation constant - perhaps Color Balance settings of about +10 Redand -30 Blue in the Mid-tones and +10 Red and -10 Blue in the highlights. You might want to "cool off" the shadows a little bit with Color Balance, say about -10 Red and +15 Blue, as the deep shadows actually get "colder" atthis time of day. Of course, all of this is based on personal interpretation.My screen is calibrated with Pantone's OptiCAL using their Spyder screen reading device and my calibrations have been in absolute lock-step with my lab for several years. I calibrate to a Gamma of 1.8 - internet imaging isarguably more likely to be in the vicinity of Gamma 2.0 (and here andthere), a modest difference. Other screen calibration devices work equally well, I'm sure. Visual "extinction" methods of screen calibration will get you in the ball park but they will never really nail color calibration - oureyes and minds are just too accomodating.Without screen calibration you are just adjusting images to suit yourself on your screen as it is . . . in its current status - its color and contrastcaracteristics will wander as time goes on and the screen ages. I greatly enjoy your photos. It is very nice to see pictures of placesfar-off and exotic to me. Especially in that they are your personal shots - scenes selected by you to portray and communicate the part of the world that you live in. For me, there is an impact of presence in these scenes that isn't generally there in more contrived illustrations. Please keep up thegood work. Regards, Tim Ellestad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carlos Manuel Freaza" <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:56 AM Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Agfa RSXII with Wratten filterThank you very much Eric,Antonio,Les,Slobodan for your useful comments. It's interesting to note that I have received several messages where the senders say they like very much this version with color correction filter; however others did not like this version. This one is the same photograph without color corrections filter, this is the raw scanned image with PS levels and colors automatic correction (these controls have a limited range): http://www.flickr.com/photos/itarfoto/315011605/ All the best Carlos __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list--- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org- Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list
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