I worked more on the CIE Lab photo from the previous post and have some thoughts on what I’d do differently.
 First, I didn’t do a whole lot of value and contrast adjustments the first time.  I just created one Curve to adjust luminance.  Next time around I’ll add curves for brightening/darkening and for contrast enhancement/reduction.  [...]

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I worked on two photographs tonight that have been giving me trouble for the last week or so.  Both were shot in Zion NP.  The one I’ve been working the longest on was what I finished up on tonight.  Hopefully I have it.  We’ll know tomorrow morning.
My point in this post is I often get [...]

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Last night I tried processing an image in Lab color space for the first time.  If you’re not familiar with Lab, it is the most accurate color space and has a gamut that covers the entire human visual spectrum.  There’s an interesting article written by Jeremy McCleary that describes how human vision works and compares [...]

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Use of Spot Healing Brush
I have an image that is a shot of the Eastern Sierra at sunrise.  There are gorgeous clouds hanging over the peaks.  The early morning sun lit them on fire along with the mountains.  It was amazing!
My exposure was pretty close to being right on.  And yet, there was one part [...]

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I stumbled across a very effective technique tonight.  But first a little background.  The image I was working on was a 4 photo HDR shot.  I processed each of the four first in DXO, then LR and finally Photomatix.  The first pass resulted in a sky that was very strange.  The word that best describes it is [...]

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At shows I’m frequently asked the following questions:  “Do you use filters?”  “Do you enhance these photographs?”  “Are these colors real?”
 
The answer is simply, “Of course.”  But I often want to respond, “If these were paintings would you be asking me whether the colors are real?  Or would there be an assumption that as a [...]

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