Frequency Separation... Help?

minicoop1985 · Aug 25, 2015

I tried my hand at Frequency Separation today. How did I do, besides the obvious cloning errors near the middle right?

Pre frequency separation by Michael Long, on Flickr

Frequency separation by Michael Long, on Flickr

Braineack · Aug 25, 2015

where's the before?

not the image I'd use the editing method on...well i guess it depends what you were doing.

astroNikon · Aug 25, 2015

Braineack said:
where's the before?

not the image I'd use the editing method on...well i guess it depends what you were doing.

he got rid of the tree reflection and kinda blew out the top right.

minicoop1985 · Aug 25, 2015

It was SO much easier than cloning it out by hand. SO much easier.

Here's another example.

Before by Michael Long, on Flickr

Freq separated by Michael Long, on Flickr

It looks like just some cloning was done, but a few moments worth of work makes cloning stuff and healing much more accurate and easy. Saved myself an hour's worth of screwing around on this one, probably 3 hours of cloning on the Ferrari. What I'm trying to say is that I SUUUUUCK at cloning (but I do it anyway).

rexbobcat · Aug 25, 2015

Besides the cloning, I'm not quite sure I understand what you've done in terms of frequency separation.

Generally that's used for portraits, so I've never seen it used on photos of cars.

tirediron · Aug 25, 2015

Wouldn't a polarizer have simplified the process even further?

minicoop1985 · Aug 26, 2015

John, I had a polarizer on, hence why you can see the engine AT ALL.

Rex, I've tried just plain cloning this stuff out before, but my god did it suck. Doing it with frequency separation seems to make it muuuuuch easier.

minicoop1985 · Aug 26, 2015

Here's another shot at it. This one I REALLY had to blur the hell out of the low pass layer to get rid of those reflections only in that layer. I've tried cloning them out so many times (it's an old shot I've revisited 20 or so times) and this time FINALLY worked. It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but what had taken over an hour to sort of get something that was worse than before.

Pre freq sep by Michael Long, on Flickr

Post freq sep by Michael Long, on Flickr

tirediron · Aug 26, 2015

minicoop1985 said:
John, I had a polarizer on, hence why you can see the engine AT ALL.

Rex, I've tried just plain cloning this stuff out before, but my god did it suck. Doing it with frequency separation seems to make it muuuuuch easier.

Wow... that's some [email protected]$$ reflection!