[Rhodes22-list] Rhodes at Night - Second attempt

[Mary Lou Troy]

Not bad at all. I think I'd tone down the lights in the ports 
slightly. The lights in most R22s are over the sink on the starboard 
side and on the aft cabin wall so the two aft ports would be lit 
indirectly. If the light in the head was on you might get a little 
direct light out of the forward side port but we rarely have that 
light on unless we are looking for something we have stowed in the v-berth.

I think you got the light in the pop-top enclosure perfectly. Nice 
work and thanks for the very clear description of how you did it.

Mary Lou


At 04:24 PM 6/6/2008, you wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>I spent 30 minutes or so making a pass at cleaning up Mike Cheung's
>photo of the R22 sitting amongst the big motor yachts.  There are
>many compelling elements in this photo and the results are pretty
>nice.  I used Adobe Photoshop CS2 for the retouching.  For those who
>want to follow along, here's what I did -
>
>1) First problem was the excessive color noise caused by the camera
>sensor grasping every photon it could to make an image.  I used the
>"Noise" filter to remove selective amounts, fiddling with the
>controls to get the noise knocked back without losing detail.
>
>2) Next challenge was how to get that nice cozy glow in the
>ports.  There was almost no data to work with in the R22 ports, so I
>had to borrow it from elsewhere.  Aha!  That yacht on the left has a
>nice glow, so I used the Clone tool to copy a portion of that glow,
>with a nice feathered edge, and stamped it into the Rhodes ports.
>
>3) Technically, the poptop should have some light in it too (if the
>lights below are on).  Once more I used the Clone tool, but selected
>a darker section to copy so it looked more shadowed.  Never saw an
>R22 with a poptop at night, so I'm totally guessing at the amount of
>light here!
>
>4) Next I started the Levels panel and brightened up the darker
>portions to bring out some detail.  Then I kicked up the midtones
>slightly so it didn't look quite so gloomy.
>
>5) I tried to do some sharpening on the image, but because of the
>background noise and the filter's affect in masking it, there wasn't
>much left for the Sharpen filter to work with.  The rigging and dock
>lines got some better definition, but that's about it.
>
>6) Lastly, I cropped off the railing in the foreground because it
>distracted from the overall composition.
>
>Stan: if you want a larger version of this for printing I can send
>you one.  I don't know how well it will print, but it's probably
>worth a try.  It's a great photo, thanks Mike Cheung!
>
>Cheers!
>
>John Lock
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>s/v Pandion - '79 Rhodes 22
>Lake Sinclair, GA
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