Quad Kite Flyers

[mikemeister_admin]

Greg, sorry to say, but I have been eating GregM's dust for a long time now . . . and I don't expect that to change anytime too soon, but I'll keep working on it!

Sorry if I did not make it clear, but I did apply a screen command to a background copy layer and then flattened the layers before applying the "by the numbers" approach.  It did get me closer, and I think the BTN approach also added some incremental improvement, but it is still far from satisfactory.

I could try to use the masks . . . just want to make sure that I wouldn't be "cheating" on this exercise by doing so.

I thought also about doing a modified HDR kind of technique where I could correct the image twice in CM, once for the highlights and once for the shadows, and then combine the image in PS, taking the best parts of both.  I could also give that a whirl!

[ggroess]

Masking is where it's at for this image.  Try out a few different ones...R channel or B channel from LAB make decent masks.

Greg

[mikemeister_admin]

Latest effort . . . getting closer, but not close to GregM's correction.

[ggroess]

Very nice...

You have certainly improved over the first pass at this rather tough image.

Greg

[mikemeister_admin]

Thanks!  I think I will come back to this one later.

[ggroess]

That is always a good idea...

Greg M has taken many different approaches to this image and continues to keep tweaking it.  It is one image that seems to just bug the heck out of people.  It's a pretty common problem that many people face when correcting images.

Greg