the living river

[mikemeister_admin]

A netral on the gray stick.
In front there is some plastic cloth or something, but is it grey ? i don't know.
So i choose the stick as a neutral.
Afterwards i have tried to vanish the residue blue cast in the b channel.

frits

[ggroess]

Fritz,
It looks like you might have overdone the black threshold.  some of the rocks in the middle of the stream seem to be sticking out almost in a 3D effect. 

Greg

[mikemeister_admin]

Fritz,
It looks like you might have overdone the black threshold.  some of the rocks in the middle of the stream seem to be sticking out almost in a 3D effect. 

Greg

Greg, perhaps you are right.
Idon't see the 3 D effect.
I tried to upgrade the contrast.
After that I went to 200 % to look or there are some loses imn the white.
I found the result good. Perhaps it good be a less contrast, so the 3 D effect is gone.

frits

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Talk about colors!  Wow.
One hint about the water - it's gray from all the sediment.

[mikemeister_admin]

Talk about colors!  Wow.
One hint about the water - it's gray from all the sediment.

Yes.,
i know that.
i asked myself, will i do that, or let the small blue color cast resident.
I think the last is the real world.
It is the reflection of the sky.

Frits

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I live in the San Francisco bay area, and the most beautiful days here are ones where the air is perfectly clear, and you can see a hundred miles or more, to the mountains in the central valley.  On those days, there is very little haze in the air, and very little blue cast.  That's another way to describe what I'm trying to teach in setting a neutral - make this picture look as if it were taken on a clear, sunny day.

One of the skills I'm teaching in this class - and that Dan Margulis teaches in his books -  is to be able to take the blue cast out and get a natural looking image as your starting point. In most cases, even the one of this river.  If, having achieved this, you decide to leave the blue cast in, you'll be in a position to make it a deliberate decision. 

[mikemeister_admin]

Mike,
nice told!
I have no comment on this!

Frits