Following on from Brian's recent comments (13th Oct.) about the saturation of the images I posted, I've now been experimenting with applying some adjustments to them.
I'm not sure just how much Saturation is 'enough' - personally I'm not a big fan of highly saturated prints - what are 'realistic colours' anyway? Then again - doesn't every adjustment you make to an image have some degree involve of subjectivity / a personal opinion? In any case - I've had a go...
These first three (pairs of before and after) images were simply adjusted as follows:
- Add a Curves adjustment layer to set the black, white and grey points
- Add a Saturation adjustment layer - increasing Yellow only to +20 (not too much...?)
These next three pairs were adjusted in almost the same way as those above - I just used a layer mask (on the animal itself) when applying the Saturation adjustment layer (rather than on the whole image).
For the last before/after pair I cloned out a bit of 'green interference' from the fence before doing the Curves and masked Saturation adjustment layers...
I hope you all like the changes - and as with all post all comments and suggestions are more than welcome...
2 comments:
What white balance were you using for the original? The pictures look to me as if using a 'cloudy' setting would have achieved the same effect - a slightly warmer tone overall.
I must admit I was using the Auto White Balance setting and some of the images (esp. the tiger's eye close-up) were effectively taken in the shade... I was primarily concentrating on getting some good images.
In general I'm fairly comfortable getting away from using the Auto & Program settings for exposure - but you're probably right in that I really should try thinking more about the various white balance settings. More experimentation is obviously required here...
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