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Jayney

I can't see the image anywhere, bloody Flickr is down and I'm understanding the complete opposite to what Julian felt. Bill said he likes shadows and how HDR strips shadows away. IE that there is too much detail in the shadows, an issue some people have with HDR. He than says the shadows in the image are too dark for his taste. That's the complete opposite to the affect of HDR so how can he feel he was accused of using HDR.

It's crazy that he felt the need to leave the forum based on not quite the harshest analysis anyone could make.

Bill. You've done nothing wrong.

That is interesting. Marketing does not mean anything to me. Put any camera in the hands of a good photographer and you will get good results. The fact that camera companies try to imply it was their gear is disingenuous. I have never bought a camera because of pretty marketing pictures.

While I agree with you, nothing moves merch like marketing, branding, etc.  Its not a bad thing as long as its true to the product and consumer.

Reprocessing 40-50 years work in a month

You've got 50 years worth of digital files ? that's a good trick.

My point is that failing to sign up for an on-going subscription doesn't (yet?) completely withdraw future access to the program or the files it's created in the past.

Maybe you'll change your workflow to another product for the future and will just need to save some files now to a new format, but you'll still be able to convert to newer format at a future date.

There's a part of the hysteria about this change to CC that doesn't merit close examination. Digital photography is quite possible without using Adobe products.

From last night.

These barns have been obsolete since horses were replaced by tractors around the 1950s. I used to see two of these on the horizon behind my house. One blew down, the other burned down. I had to drive over the horizon to find this one.

This alters colors and will also push things towards clipping at times.

It can be useful. It can also help to do this in photoshop on a duplicate layer converted to black and white and
applied in luminance mode.

I also find that the using clarity before retouching can be detremental as it is destructive.
Sometimes saving the retouched file as a tif and going back into ACR for a final output specific pass can be a good thing.

I replied to Eric already, but yes, I find that I can do this in a layer and adjust, fade, blend, certain channels etc.  Very flexible.  Clarity can work, especially as part of a preset to show a client before real retouching is done in PS, and sometimes its fast and effective.  Its just a tool in the shed.

You and Rajan really know how to do solar disks.

Hi,

That is a well known trick. Don't know about Phocus or C1, but clarity in Lightroom is much more sofisticated than larg radius USM. Adobe has written special algorithms for clarity in ACR/Lightroom, and those cannot be replicated with Photoshop tools. I am pretty sure that Jeff and Eric Chan have discussed this on the forums.

Best regards
Erik

I'm glad there are advanced algorithms and such, and sometimes it works just great, others not so great, and to my eye for certain images large radius USM is better, especially when working with lawyers and blending the results or fading it out and in different channels etc. 

I like your version better than mine on the right cheek, but it makes it overall a bit more gloomy than I wanted it.

She's actually blonde -ish)...

;-)

Rob C


P.S. Where I find digital works least well (in this instance) is on the skin under the mouth: makes me think of porridge instead of skin.

P.P.S.  I'd rather folks would ask before using images; though within a general critique section, this thread/one isn't actually so.

I see it as a wonderful abstract scowling face.

Now that you mention it, I see an angry nun.

Rob C

Yes it is :-), but it can be fun, I do (fairly) low end MFD mostly for fun. For professionals that need to work quickly and on a budget MFD is rarely a good idea. Having second hand stuff without support is not so great when doing stuff professionally, what if the back breaks, you'll need a backup too... better to have stuff that's easy to come by. Or you go all in and pay what it costs.

A pro needs something that just works.  A new back from a good dealer works.  You pay for that convenience, though.  You pay a lot.