SOOC: Is this my John Henry Moment?

Well this is embarrassing. I just realized that the JPEG and the RAW are not the same shots. They are from the same series and they are real close to each other in the browser but they are different shots. can you spot the giveaway?

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X3xkj95AL...B13%2B2018.jpg

I shot in JPEG Deep and RAW. Except for resizing this is pure SOOC. I'm impressed.

The following is my vision. my ego says it's better

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iBqnXoAnX...B13%2B2018.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI0D44zYP-Q

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Originally Posted by JBW

I shot in JPEG Deep and RAW. Except for resizing this is pure SOOC. I'm impressed.

The following is my vision. my ego says it's better

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Very poignant Brian. But, I must say, I do like the SOOC shot!

Nice transition in lightbox, your edits helped enrich the colors and give some body to the bulbs and petals; but at the same time you've altered the balance of the composition and equalized all of the elements of your image.

Charles i like the SOOK. But i like the idea that I can improve on it even more.:)

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Originally Posted by Shadowman

Nice transition in lightbox, your edits helped enrich the colors and give some body to the bulbs and petals; but at the same time you've altered the balance of the composition and equalized all of the elements of your image.

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I applied a touch of HDR in pp and it apparently made the flower's just a touch bigger.

Looks to me as though the major difference is that the HDR processing brightened the shadows. That's what I would have expected, given the primary purpose of HDR. You could do that easily with a tone curve adjustment, since you don't have enough tonal range to exceed what can be handled in a single exposure and therefore don't need HDR.

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Originally Posted by DanK

Looks to me as though the major difference is that the HDR processing brightened the shadows. That's what I would have expected, given the primary purpose of HDR. You could do that easily with a tone curve adjustment, since you don't have enough tonal range to exceed what can be handled in a single exposure and therefore don't need HDR.

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Actually it is a lot of pp adjusting and very little HDR. It isn't a question of needing it is a question of progressing along the path.

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Originally Posted by DanK

Looks to me as though the major difference is that the HDR processing brightened the shadows. That's what I would have expected, given the primary purpose of HDR. You could do that easily with a tone curve adjustment, since you don't have enough tonal range to exceed what can be handled in a single exposure and therefore don't need HDR.

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I took out the HDR, gotta love layers pp!

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lKStDzDO8...B13%2B2018.jpg

Sometimes the JPEG might look better than a processed RAW. But that's not the point.

With the RAW you are always able to create the image that you saw in your mind as you pressed the shutter.

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Originally Posted by Donald

Sometimes the JPEG might look better than a processed RAW. But that's not the point.

With the RAW you are always able to create the image that you saw in your mind as you pressed the shutter.

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Perhaps not always but at least there is always the possibility?:)