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    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?

    SOOC: Is this my John Henry Moment?

    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

    SOOC: Is this my John Henry Moment?

    Last edited by JBW; 13th April 2018 at 10:20 AM. Reason: mia culpa time

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    Re: SOOC: Is this my John Henry Moment?

    Quote Originally Posted by JBW View Post
    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
    Very poignant Brian. But, I must say, I do like the SOOC shot!
    Last edited by Dave Humphries; 13th April 2018 at 06:54 PM. Reason: remove quoted images

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    Re: SOOC: Is this my John Henry Moment?

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

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    Re: SOOC: Is this my John Henry Moment?

    Quote Originally Posted by Shadowman View Post
    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.
    I applied a touch of HDR in pp and it apparently made the flower's just a touch bigger.

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    Re: SOOC: Is this my John Henry Moment?

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by DanK View Post
    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.
    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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    Re: SOOC: Is this my John Henry Moment?

    Quote Originally Posted by DanK View Post
    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.
    I took out the HDR, gotta love layers pp!

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    Re: SOOC: Is this my John Henry Moment?

    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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    Re: SOOC: Is this my John Henry Moment?

    Quote Originally Posted by Donald View Post
    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.
    Perhaps not always but at least there is always the possibility?

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