Beach Vignette - Boarding past the readers
Details
Readers and a Boogie boarder at Rehoboth beach.
Quick links to related images
View my Rehoboth beach images (note: many are composites)
Technical Trivia
The high speed burst mode of my aging SP550UZ camera was used to capture people in motion.
Problem: The burst mode reduces resolution and makes the color less pleasing. The purpose of this series is to explore ways to make the images more pleasing. The presumption is that B&W conversion will minimize distracting artifacts. The original image and some intermediate processing is shown in the first comment.
Aggressive black level enhancement:
- Generate a copy
- Use 'curves' tool to set bottom 15% of colors to black (V in HSV color space)
- Composite with original using soft light transformation at 50% opacity.
- Convert to B&W using a green filter
- Noise reduction with Noise Ninja Pro (default mode unless specified)
Beach Vignette - Boarding past the readers
Details
Readers and a Boogie boarder at Rehoboth beach.
Quick links to related images
View my Rehoboth beach images (note: many are composites)
Technical Trivia
The high speed burst mode of my aging SP550UZ camera was used to capture people in motion.
Problem: The burst mode reduces resolution and makes the color less pleasing. The purpose of this series is to explore ways to make the images more pleasing. The presumption is that B&W conversion will minimize distracting artifacts. The original image and some intermediate processing is shown in the first comment.
Aggressive black level enhancement:
- Generate a copy
- Use 'curves' tool to set bottom 15% of colors to black (V in HSV color space)
- Composite with original using soft light transformation at 50% opacity.
- Convert to B&W using a green filter
- Noise reduction with Noise Ninja Pro (default mode unless specified)