Tim Tucker
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I didn't pay much attention to this at the time, but a few people liked it more than I thought it was worth so I've spent a little more time on it. It was shot on a windy day (kept blowing the tripod over ) in a gap between very heavy showers (just before a mad dash back to the car ).
Now I've been warbling on about tone-mapping and equalising values in another thread, so I decided to tone map this image to see the effects below.
See how the impression of light almost disappears from the foreground water in the tone-mapped version. This impression of light is created, in the original, by the light tones of the water against the darker tones of the banks. It's the interplay of the light area against the dark and there's a rhythm of shapes. Tone-mapping has not only raised the values of the tones on the banks, it has also lowered some of the tones in the water. Now the water is composed of similar tones and values to the banks with the result that they begin to look similar. They've been equalised in value, there's no longer an interplay between light and dark. The rhythm between the areas has been replaced with a pattern of micro-contrast that spans the whole foreground, the stream itself is no longer a separate shape.
EDIT: It's not all about seeing detail in everything. In the original I saw the shape of the bright water as reflection the light areas of sky and the area of dark middle bank in the lower left mirrors the mountain ridge behind. This is what I mean when I talk about the interplay and rhythm of light and dark, the separate and distinguishable shapes. See how they disappear in the tone-mapped version and the rhythm becomes an unfathomable one of random micro-contrast.
Original:
Tone-mapped:
Now I've been warbling on about tone-mapping and equalising values in another thread, so I decided to tone map this image to see the effects below.
See how the impression of light almost disappears from the foreground water in the tone-mapped version. This impression of light is created, in the original, by the light tones of the water against the darker tones of the banks. It's the interplay of the light area against the dark and there's a rhythm of shapes. Tone-mapping has not only raised the values of the tones on the banks, it has also lowered some of the tones in the water. Now the water is composed of similar tones and values to the banks with the result that they begin to look similar. They've been equalised in value, there's no longer an interplay between light and dark. The rhythm between the areas has been replaced with a pattern of micro-contrast that spans the whole foreground, the stream itself is no longer a separate shape.
EDIT: It's not all about seeing detail in everything. In the original I saw the shape of the bright water as reflection the light areas of sky and the area of dark middle bank in the lower left mirrors the mountain ridge behind. This is what I mean when I talk about the interplay and rhythm of light and dark, the separate and distinguishable shapes. See how they disappear in the tone-mapped version and the rhythm becomes an unfathomable one of random micro-contrast.
Original:
Tone-mapped:
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