Corrosion Rainbow

deeky · Mar 11, 2014

This was corroded stainless or aluminum - not sure which. Either way, liked the color patterns with the hard rivets for just a little contrast.

Curious for your reactions.

IMG_6194a by breckmiller, on Flickr

tirediron · Mar 11, 2014

Very cool!

mmaria · Mar 12, 2014

I'm not sure what you've done in pp here but I would prefer it with a different pp.

I know I haven't said anything helpful...

deeky · Mar 12, 2014

It's actually very little post work on this one. Just slight bumps in saturation, contrast, and clarity; some slight local sharpening on the three rivets, and then a high pass layer masked off other than the three rivets just to pop them a little more. That's it. The colors really did look like that in person in the sunlight.

I played a little more and here's one other look at it:

IMG_6194b by breckmiller, on Flickr

mmaria · Mar 13, 2014

deeky said:
It's actually very little post work on this one. Just slight bumps in saturation, contrast, and clarity; some slight local sharpening on the three rivets, and then a high pass layer masked off other than the three rivets just to pop them a little more. That's it. The colors really did look like that in person in the sunlight.

That actually is not "a bit" of pp. You've just confirmed my doubts and the reasons why I don't like this pp. Boosting contrast and clarity will boost saturation also. Adding there more saturation takes away from the image itself.

I like corrosion, always look at it and photograph it, that's why I commented on this photo.

We have different tastes. I never touch saturation slider and high pass filter I use rarely. For me, your pp is overwhelming and completely wrong with the corrosion. Corrosion suppose to be raw, strong, sharp imo, this is more like corrosion on drugs.

Don't be mad at me and don't hate me, it's just my preference

I like the photo , I just don't like your pp

deeky · Mar 17, 2014

FWIW, here's another shot, straight out of camera with no processing beyond converting from RAW to jpeg. Slightly different shot, but same corrosion. It wasn't corrosion like rust, so there was nothing to be sharp. Perhaps 'oxidation' would have been a better word than corrosion. It was more like a smear across the surface.

IMG_6193 by breckmiller, on Flickr