Topic: Todays image is in honor of Steve....

[Greg Groess]

Veggies for everyone....

Greg

[sjordan93436]

Thanks.  You may find this hard to believe, I have 5,000 photos of artichokes...  but 43 on my laptop.

Here are two (of 43).

[sjordan93436]

oops

[gremurphoto]

My first image was,well,dark.No detail to the bushel basketsThen I remembered Zog's admonition and tried again.GregM

1 incandescent to daylight converter in CM library.
2 shadow/highlight in CS4
3 skin pin midtone cauc
4 Cm for lizzard tail boost at bottom of lightness channel and finding a neutral  that read 0,-1(on the curtain behind the woman in black)
5 slight sharpen

I've noticed a blue line between the grey and the white of the light fixture.

[Greg Groess]

Nice catch on the CM library file.  That gets you a long way to better color for this image...
Greg

[sjordan93436]

My attempt.  Problem is the mixed lighting.  the background is far too blue.  I used RGB color correction in CM (color blend) followed by lab correction (l channel only).  then I opened the green up in a luminosity blend.  Converted to LAB and boosted the colors (grrr.....  especially the blue).

I used the signs as neutrals.

[themightyzog]

Wow GregM, that is an amazing transformation - I'll buy some of that fruit.

[themightyzog]

Well, I'm getting quite depressed - my curving is obviously too rusty.

This is the best I could manage.
I started using Greg's idea of the incandescent to daylight converter in CM library, which put me on the right path
Then I lighten using an overlay method (I'm still using PS7, so do not the the s/h feature)
Re-entered CM to try and correct the casts in rgb, setting shadow, neutral and skin
Added some local contrast
before finally curving for tones in CM.

I seem to still have blue tints all over the place, especially in the darker tones and I seem to have blown some highlights.

Very interesting image - thanks GregG
Zog

[sjordan93436]

Pardon my ignorance...  CM library?  Where is that?

[themightyzog]

here

[Greg Groess]

Chris you beat me to the punch...

CM provides some curves you can use to fix problems like incandescent to daylight...and vice versa.
In the new interface you could follow the screen shots below.

Greg

[gremurphoto]

sjordan,don't forget paper may contain a blueing agent to make it appear white.That said ,I tried the two pieces under the basket at upper right.Greg

Below is my first attempt with two neutrals in RGB.I thought the most important part of the picture was the girls face even if blurred.The skin pin fixed that,then to make the fruit under the lamps look appealing

[Greg Groess]

oops

Well I thought I'd have a try at this image and see if we could make you hungry....I have attached the Curves files so you can see what I did.
to open the curve file:
Download the acv file from the web.
Open the posted image in CM and select the LAB color space.
Click on the load button and select the acv file.  click OK.

Greg

[Greg Groess]

Thanks.  You may find this hard to believe, I have 5,000 photos of artichokes...  but 43 on my laptop.

Here are two (of 43).

Steve.
In general, when we are dealing with Plant life and greens ..."in general" we want the greens to be more on the yellow side of the green than the blue.  If you look at the screen shot with the hue clocks you can see that I made sure all of the greens I sampled were adjusted so that the hue clock arm was pointed between the yellow and the green. 

I also helped the Artichoke itself in the blue channel by making it more magenta than yellow. 

Thanks for posting these.  They are great examples where a fast curve can make a large difference in the outcome of the image.
Greg

[themightyzog]

Where is your heart Greg? - these plants have an aura around them, can't you feel their spirit?

I think this is more atmospheric and brings the picture to life - I can just feel it pulsating in amongst the leaves.