► Summer Sun, 4 Strings ♫ ♪
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18 responses to “find me summer sun”
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Easy to see… you are a great painter, don´t mind the particular ‘paint brush’ you use. =)
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No, contrast is not equivilant to saturation, but I’d bet iPhoto has sliders for both. Whereas contrast is the difference between white and black, saturation is the difference between different colors. Zero saturation means a grayscale image.
I suspect, though, it’s the software you used to do the HDR tone mapping that’s responsible for the oversaturation. What software did you use?
Personally, I like the job Photomatix does, though I haven’t got around to doing much with it yet. -
L’océan, les vagues, le soleil, la plage et le sable font partie des plaisirs d’été dans la baie Half Moon.
Les fleurs sauvages sont très jolies. Les couchers de soleil sont magnifiques!
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talking about summer sun, eastern sun, western sun, saturated sun… Southern Sun… Do you think this one is bit too saturated too? 😛
I think it is. But I can´t blame the editor… it was my burning love I that made it turn out like that. 😉
I ve just read something fabulous, talking about burning loves and chasing the sun:
"How long should you try? Until."
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I hope you don’t think I’m being too critical- after all, art is all about learning to follow all the rules so that you can decide intelligently when they ought to be broken. Frankly, I think the commentary on Flickr isn’t critical enough- but I’m usually guilty of that, as well.
For your picture, Gisela.. I’d actually say its saturation is just fine. Because it’s so dominated by one color, you can push the saturation a lot harder to really bring it out. Still, you haven’t taken it so far that it’s destroyed the more subtle variations.
I think some of jurvetson’s HDR pictures have lost those variations in light and color, particularly around the sun, sky, and water. Tone-mapped HDR is tricky- there’s a big tradeoff between microcontrast, giving you a rather striking and somewhat surreal image, and macrocontrast, giving you something closer to how our eyes and minds percieve the world than ordinary photography can capture. And, of course, a lot of HDR software tends to oversaturate the image. 🙂 -
very interesting comment about micro vs. macro contrast… I’m wondering if I should get Photomatix as the solution… I don’t have a saturation slider in iPhoto, and I don’t know how to use Photoshop for anything other than the automated HDR script. For the final 32 to 8 bit conversion, it gives me a brightness histogram and I can adjust a curve over it. The default straight line makes the photo look like a Neiman painting in light pastels… By pulling it to an J-Curve or S-Curve, it starts to look more natural, but I am generally unhappy with the blues of the sky. Is that also a tool for adjusting saturation (i.e., is there a curve adjustment that lowers the saturation)? thanks.
P.S. if you cover the left 1/3 of this photo, that was my first cropping impulse… It looks good without the sun and flare…. but i really like the wide expanse of the 16mm shot… and so I left those distractions in.
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Why not download the demo and reprocess this same image to see how you like the results? I think it’s fully functional, except it watermarks the output.
I ran into the same problem as you with Photoshop.. it does okay at combining shots into an HDR image, but then does a lousy job of tone-mapping it back to something you can actually see without the help of a very fancy display. Photomatix, on the other hand, offers quite a lot of control and produces very nice results. I think it will be very clear exactly what I’ve been saying about saturation and macro/micro-contrast when you’re pushing around the sliders in the tonemapping menu. 🙂 -
Etolane’s trial period was surely over a while ago but she continues so…
Ask how she got rid of the watermarks quite early on during the trial period. -
The New York Times just posted an interesting article on the HDR technique which touches on flickr as well.
It’d be interesting to combine HDR with the tilt shift technique…
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Hi I’m planning to use this on my blog for a post about summer.
Thanks so much!
Jamie
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Hi there,
Great pic – I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve used it for an article listing events for this week. Please let me know if you’d like any changes in the usage or attribution.
Thanks again!
Kamela Dolinova
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