New camera, new lens....

[Wizard1500]

Getting used to my D7100 and 70-300 Nikon lens..... C & C welcome.....

DSC_0111_00001_lzn by Carl Summers, on Flickr

DSC_0134_00017_lzn by Carl Summers, on Flickr

DSC_0127_00010_lzn by Carl Summers, on Flickr

 

[Ysarex122]

Nice Morning Glory. I noticed you're processing these with LightZone. Are you processing NEF files or JPEG files? The processed contrast in these is really low.

Joe

 

[Wizard1500]

I'm converting NEF to TIFF.....I agree about the contrast....trying to learn how to better process.....just as an aside, they were shot in early morning shade.....any suggestions? TIA....

 

[Ysarex122]

I'm converting NEF to TIFF.....I agree about the contrast....trying to learn how to better process.....just as an aside, they were shot in early morning shade.....any suggestions? TIA....

I can help with LightZone. Put the Morning Glory NEF in Dropbox or similar and I'll send you an LZN file to show you how I'd process it.

Joe

 

[Wizard1500]

Thanks, Joe. I'm brand new to Dropbox, but, I it appears that I've put the NEF in my dropbox. Now, how do I share it with you?

 

[Wizard1500]

Here is the link, Joe. Thanks again...:

Dropbox - DSC 0134.NEF

 

[Ysarex122]

Got it.

Here's a link to the LZN file. If you copy it to the folder with the NEF file and then click on the LZN in Light Zone you'll see what I did: DSC_0134_lzn.jpg

Most critically I used a Relight and raised the contrast by changing the Blending Mode to Soft Light (also raised Detail).

The Soft Light blend raised saturation as well so I added a Hue/Saturation and knocked down the greens a little.

Increased Sharpening a little.

And then I added a ZoneMapper just as a vehicle to get another blend mode. I masked the flower/background and used a Multiply blend to darken the background.

One of the reasons I'm so fond of LZ is the blending mode access provided while converting a raw file. No other raw converter has it and it's really handy, especially in conjunction with the masking function.

Joe

 

[Wizard1500]

Wow. Thank you, so much.....this will give me a start for learning post. I really appreciate you help.....

 

[Wizard1500]

Joe, I get an error when clicking on the pic (Unrecognized GenericOperationType "RawAdjustments V2"....but my folowing your write up, I did the following from the original NEF.....no blending, but I'm learning ( I think ) might be a little heavy, but I'm still working with it....

DSC_0134_lzn by Carl Summers, on Flickr