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Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: Mike G on April 01, 2020, 17:15:20

Title: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Mike G on April 01, 2020, 17:15:20
Speyer Cathedral peeping out of the trees!

Nikon D810 + 24-120mm @ 1/400 f5.6 ISO100.
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: pluton on April 01, 2020, 19:43:22
Nice shot, Mike. The "hot" processing works well I think, but I wonder what happened to cause the compression artifacts in the sky?  File size seems fine (1.5 MB approx)...
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Mike G on April 01, 2020, 20:02:29
Nice shot, Mike. The "hot" processing works well I think, but I wonder what happened to cause the compression artifacts in the sky?  File size seems fine (1.5 MB approx)...
My fault Keith, what form do these artifices take?
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Birna Rørslett on April 01, 2020, 21:34:54
Visible posterisation in the sky. Like you have done a lot of edits on a jpg file?
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Mike G on April 02, 2020, 07:31:14
Thanks Birna, if I remember correctly the sky was originally very pale, and Itried to make it bluer!
Also the cloud highlights blew out quite badly!
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Mike G on April 02, 2020, 09:00:35
A new edit hopefully not OTT
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Birna Rørslett on April 02, 2020, 09:31:20
This look quite a bit better, though colours are more muted. No obvious banding in the sky.
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Mike G on April 02, 2020, 13:08:39
This look quite a bit better, though colours are more muted. No obvious banding in the sky.
Thanks Birna
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: pluton on April 02, 2020, 23:00:58
This look quite a bit better, though colours are more muted. No obvious banding in the sky.
+1. 
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Luc on April 02, 2020, 23:40:18
Nice - second - image, Mike.
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: CS on April 02, 2020, 23:52:58
Nice - second - image, Mike.

Let me add a 5hird to the above renarks, Nike! 
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Hugh_3170 on April 03, 2020, 00:54:22
Lets make it a 4th Mike.  :)

A nice image and peaceful one at this troubled time.

Let me add a 5hird to the above renarks, Nike!
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Frank Fremerey on April 03, 2020, 18:54:42
A new edit hopefully not OTT

The second edit is much better, the first looks sooooo soft on my screen...
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Mike G on April 03, 2020, 20:00:38
I agree Frank the first edit in hindsight was awful, I was trying to make the sky a deeper blue, didn’t work!
Now a definite fan of the Lr dehaze and clarity sliders?
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: pluton on April 03, 2020, 22:10:05
I agree Frank the first edit in hindsight was awful, I was trying to make the sky a deeper blue, didn’t work!
Now a definite fan of the Lr dehaze and clarity sliders?
I liked the slightly overcooked color in the first version, now it's too 'normal'.  Picky lot, aren't we? (Sorry to be a backseat driver!).
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Fons Baerken on April 04, 2020, 12:58:43
Dont ask for advice do yor own thing whatever they may think or say ;)
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Mike G on April 04, 2020, 15:14:15
Dont ask for advice do yor own thing whatever they may think or say ;)
I hear you Fons, but isn’t it a bit shortsighted to ignore the advice  of experienced colleagues, of course you may choose not to use that advice if that is your want!
Especially when I’m by no means expert enough to adjust little sections of a photo.
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Fons Baerken on April 04, 2020, 15:57:02
I hear you Fons, but isn’t it a bit shortsighted to ignore the advice  of experienced colleagues, of course you may choose not to use that advice if that is your want!
Especially when I’m by no means expert enough to adjust little sections of a photo.

My reply would be go by your own judgment, but then again do as you wish (no negative included btw), you are experienced enough, Mike, to have developed a personal vision.
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Bent Hjarbo on April 04, 2020, 16:35:51
My take on this is the jpeg artifacts in the first picture is/was the problem, not the colors as such.
If it was done from an raw file it should be possible to make the “overcooked” version without the artifacts.
Sometimes strong colours give strong impression.
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Mike G on April 04, 2020, 17:24:09
My reply would be go by your own judgment, but then again do as you wish (no negative included btw), you are experienced enough, Mike, to have developed a personal vision.
My problem is translating the vision to actuality, I’m not very skilled at doing that!
Title: Re: Speyer Cathedral
Post by: Fons Baerken on April 04, 2020, 18:36:56
Drop that thought, and assert your own!