Different lens, different time, the same place

hpmickey · Joined: 09 Nov 2011 Posts: 55 Location: Czechia

... and different processing as well.

The first one was taken by Helios 44-2 in April, processed in the Corel's AfterShot (gradual density filter, some plastic bottles cloned, and cropped a little), the second one by Pentacon 30/3.5 today, processed in RawTherapee. Both sharpened after rescale.

Michal

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

I see no sharpness Sad

on these pictures and colors looks mutted, subject is trully excellent I think best to convert it to b&w

hpmickey · Joined: 09 Nov 2011 Posts: 55 Location: Czechia

Hello Attila,
thank you for pointing out the lack of sharpness. Looking at the images again, I have to agree with you (and I hate to admit it Wink

). I may have done some stupid mistake when routinely exporting resized images from the Gimp, I don't know.

I tried to redo them both - increased saturation, contrast and sharpness a bit, and exported them directly from AfterShot . Is it better now, or still horrible?

Next time I'll try the suggested b&w conversion, but I must first learn it.

Michal

Attila · Expire: 2025-11-18

I think this revision works very well on second image , on first image still need to change light a bit to more bright an vivid just like second image or close to that.

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

I think a simple midtone curve can do the job:

patrickh · Expire: 2011-11-18

Much more better

Very Happy

patrickh