![]() ![]() Tonal (Levels) – Black Point: 7 Mid Point: -0.10 White Point: 180 Tonal (Clarity) – Algorithm: Neutral Clarity: 15 Structure: 32 Tonal (High Dynamic Range) – Highlight: 0 Shadow: 10 Tonal (Exposure) – Exposure: -0.20 Contrast: 12 Brightness: 8 This included a long time spent with the the curves tool but I abandoned it in the end. Notes – Aperture has plenty of tools for manipulating tonality but I couldn’t find any easy way of lifting the crushed blacks in the rocks without losing a large amount of overall contrast in the image. Noise Reduction – Radius: 1.88 Edge Detail: 2.44Įdge Sharpening – Intensity: 0.39 Edges: 0.22 Falloff: 0.69 Tonal (Highlights & Shadows) – Highlights: 5.13 Shadows: 41.82 Mid Contrast: 49.02 Tonal (Enhance) – Contrast: 0.3 Definition: 1.0 Tonal (Exposure) – Exposure: 0.62 Recovery: 0.02 Black Point: 18.07 Brightness: 0.09 Notes – Every method (of which there are many) that Lightroom offers to increase contrast has been thrown at this image. Noise Reduction – Luminance: 30 Detail: 59 Contrast: 50 Color: 25 Detail: 50 Smoothness: 50 Sharpening – Amount: 25 Radius: 0.9 Detail: 78 Masking: 78 Tonal (Curve) – Highlights: +88 Lights: -25 Darks: -11 Shadows: +81 Tonal (Basic) – Exposure: +1.30 Contrast: +33 Highlights: 0 Shadows: -50 Whites: -56 Blacks: -34 Clarity: +100 However, this can (and will) result in the creation of substantial amounts of noise and problems on the data margins for this image this manifests as loss of detail in the surf, mid ground rocks that are too dark and have lost detail, and noise in the sky and cliffs. Processing an image such as this is generally a matter of placing the white and black points close to, or at the margins of, the available data by whatever means the RAW converter allows. ![]() It was taken above Millook Haven looking North past Widemouth Bay and up the Culm coast towards Bude. The image I have chosen contains two of these problems. ![]() Large amounts of spray in the air, misty conditions and shooting through a telephoto lens are common occurrences and all can result in a low dynamic range in an image. ON1 PHOTO RAW DEFRINGE SOFTWAREThe final image comparison in our RAW converters comparison is a test of the abilities of the software to deal with an image where there is a low dynamic range other ways of expressing this problem would be to say that the image has a compressed histogram or low contrast.Īs a coastal landscape photographer this problem occurs on a fairly regular basis for me. ![]()
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