Topic: Quick Curves: My Favorite Spot in Monterey, CA

[curvemeister]

I took this photograph yesterday morning, at Point Lobos, near Monterey, CA. 

This is an area where Edward Weston lived, and took many of his images in the first half of the 20th century.

[gremurphoto]

Tried to keep the detail in the flat sections of the rockface.Took the color out in Lab,then an s curve of sorts in lightness.

[gremurphoto]

After shadow,hightlight,neutral,I used a b channel mask so I didn't changethe sky.

[Greg Groess]

curves and masks...ummmm delicious...lol

Greg

[themightyzog]

Oh I've not heard of this guy - shame on me.

But lovely to try a B&W for a change - I think it is harder to make a good B&W photo than a colour one (not that I think this shot is better in B&W).

I think I prefer it with a dark background sea - or is the lighter sea better?

Finally colour

[themightyzog]

light sea

[themightyzog]

slipping finger - pity we cant edit our posting
- doesnt colour make a difference!

[curvemeister]

Nice, as always, Zog.  I like the look of the darker stone.

BTW - I believe you can edit your posting by clicking on the Modify Message link.  ON my system, this link appears to the right of the message subject.

[themightyzog]

You are correct Mike, but I couldnt find a way to remove an image, just modify the text.

[Greg Groess]

click on the +Additional Options link on you r old message and you get the option to remove an image.

Greg

[themightyzog]

Ah ha - thank you Greg

[English Paul]

Like the first exercise, I've followed Greg's example of the two-stage edit

[English Paul]

Oh - I thought I'd attached two screen shots. Sorry

[Greg Groess]

very nice 

Greg

[Leonid Romanov]

This looks like a tricky image to me: it is hard to find a neutral without knowing what was the actual color of the rockface, so it seems that the only way to color correct it is to make sure that the values for the color of the sky, sea and greenery are within acceptable range. May be in few weeks I'll be able to do it, but not now. So, continuing the trend, here is a B&W version instead: