Blair Mill Sheave Tower - Late Spring

[Manfred M]

I had an unexpected trip to Southern Ontario last week, so I took the opportunity to continue documenting the Blair Mill sheave tower, this time in a late spring setting.




This shot was taken with the f/3.5 24mm Nikkor TS-E lens. All I can say is that the tilt-shift lens reduces the effort in post to eliminate keystone effects a lot!

[Shadowman]

Nicely done, nice leading lines.

[Mike Buckley]

I'm finally to the point that when I see the thread title I instantly know what the subject is. Great diffuse light and rich but natural colors! I would have to see all the other photos but I wouldn't be surprised to realize that this is my favorite composition.

[Brownbear]

Truly exquisite...

[Otavio]

Nice exposure, with beautiful contrasted colours. Nice composition and PP (NICE ALL ).

Well done, Manfred!

[bnnrcn]

The colours are so lively but they don't look artificial, very nice indeed

[Manfred M]

Thanks everyone.

Binnur - When I use RAW files; I almost always up both the clarity and vibrance during the import process. I also set the black and white points appropriately. This gives me most of the "pop" I have in most of my images. In this image I also increased the blue in the conversion process (also in ACR); this made the sky and clouds stand out a bit more, but did not affect other parts of the image.

The only colour adjustments in Photoshop proper was a mask of the sheave tower itself and I added a bit of saturation to it.

This is the straight out of camera jpeg; the only processing was to convert from AdobeRGB to sRGB.

[bnnrcn]

Manfred, when I adjust clarity,vibrance and hue-saturation-luminance in ACR part I feel more comfortable too, because the image is usually not harmed. But in PS side I think things are a bit different. In 'hue and saturation' and 'selective colour' adjustments layers, if I want to make some changes I usually get something like posterisation in my images. I wonder if this is because my camera is not very good (Canon 1100D) or everyone has the same problem ?

Thanks everyone.

Binnur - When I use RAW files; I almost always up both the clarity and vibrance during the import process. I also set the black and white points appropriately. This gives me most of the "pop" I have in most of my images. In this image I also increased the blue in the conversion process (also in ACR); this made the sky and clouds stand out a bit more, but did not affect other parts of the image.

The only colour adjustments in Photoshop proper was a mask of the sheave tower itself and I added a bit of saturation to it.

This is the straight out of camera jpeg; the only processing was to convert from AdobeRGB to sRGB.

[Manfred M]

Manfred, when I adjust clarity,vibrance and hue-saturation-luminance in ACR part I feel more comfortable too, because the image is usually not harmed. But in PS side I think things are a bit different. In 'hue and saturation' and 'selective colour' adjustments layers, if I want to make some changes I usually get something like posterisation in my images. I wonder if this is because my camera is not very good (Canon 1100D) or everyone has the same problem ?

Often posterization happens when:

1. You are editing 8-bit jpeg files rather than using 12-bit or 14-bit RAW files in the edit; or

2. Your edits are too extreme.

If you are using jpegs, then I would suggest you look at using RAW. You have 11 stops of dynamic range, which is more than enough (my D90 is only about 1.5 stops higher, and have not had this problem with it). If you are getting posterization in RAW files, dial things back a bit.

[AceOfHobbes]

Nice shot. Just up the road from me.

[bnnrcn]

Thank you Manfred I don't post process jpeg files anymore , I use RAW. Because I'm not very experienced in PP , may be I'm pushing things too much, I had better step back

Often posterization happens when:

1. You are editing 8-bit jpeg files rather than using 12-bit or 14-bit RAW files in the edit; or

2. Your edits are too extreme.

If you are using jpegs, then I would suggest you look at using RAW. You have 11 stops of dynamic range, which is more than enough (my D90 is only about 1.5 stops higher, and have not had this problem with it). If you are getting posterization in RAW files, dial things back a bit.

[Mike Buckley]

Binnur,

Another possibility to be on the lookout for is that the post-processed RAW file looks fine but posterization occurs when a JPEG version of the image is made to display online or to print.