Shadows

abhishekdg · May 25, 2012

Here goes mine.. Just an amateur attempt

AlanE · May 25, 2012

OM2N Zuiko 50MM TMAX 100 Exp 2001 Shot iso 80 TMAX Dev 1:4 @ 8 Min 68 Degrees

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Flat Land by Nokinrocks, on Flickr

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Impressions by Nokinrocks, on Flickr

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Over Shadowed by Nokinrocks, on Flickr

Skyclad · May 26, 2012

My trial... Or Error?

KenC · May 26, 2012

Pretty good, but needs more contrast, IMO, especially darker shadows. Kind of like this, although it would look better done during RAW conversion instead of on the jpg.

Skyclad · May 26, 2012

KenC said:
Pretty good, but needs more contrast, IMO, especially darker shadows. Kind of like this, although it would look better done during RAW conversion instead of on the jpg.

I thought about doing it darker, and when I tried, I thought it looked too dark to me. Maybe I wasn't being subtle enough with the slides. Unfortunately, my camera doesn't do RAW. Thus, it has its limitations, and I try to do my best in those bounds.

KenC · May 26, 2012

Skyclad said:
KenC said:

Pretty good, but needs more contrast, IMO, especially darker shadows. Kind of like this, although it would look better done during RAW conversion instead of on the jpg.

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I thought about doing it darker, and when I tried, I thought it looked too dark to me. Maybe I wasn't being subtle enough with the slides. Unfortunately, my camera doesn't do RAW. Thus, it has its limitations, and I try to do my best in those bounds.

I don't know how you made it darker - if it was with a general brightness slider that lightens/darkens the whole image that's not what you want. I used Curves to darken the lower midtones (@ about 75/255) while lightening the highlights. You could do something similar with Levels, but not as well.

Skyclad · May 26, 2012

KenC said:
I don't know how you made it darker - if it was with a general brightness slider that lightens/darkens the whole image that's not what you want. I used Curves to darken the lower midtones (@ about 75/255) while lightening the highlights. You could do something similar with Levels, but not as well.

I've only worked with levels as a curve so far, unfortunately. I'm still really learning how to do things in gimp. I think my knowledge of using gimp is probably a little less better than my photos themselves. Both are a learn as you go process with a fairly large learning curve in the beginning. I'll get there eventually :thumbup: