Too Quiet on the Eastern Front too

Fred A

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Too Quiet on the Eastern Front too

« on: August 26, 2020, 12:29:09 PM »

Ok fellas and gals.
Time to take those masks off inside the house. Breathing your own CO2 exhales is putting you all to sleep.
I was playing with a few blah images. I applied a touch of ODR and made something pretty decent out of blah. Took 20 seconds.
053 is BLAH
048 is has one small ODR box little of the white beard plus some skin tone.
052 will be on a separate post. Just too many bytes for the post allowed.
052 has a second ODR box in the hat just to top off the adjustment.
You have to experiment to get smooth with ODR
Fred


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Fred A

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Re: Too Quiet on the Eastern Front too

« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2020, 12:30:44 PM »

and the last one 052 just a little finesse added


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MelW

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Re: Too Quiet on the Eastern Front too

« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2020, 01:19:30 PM »

Fred - I really like the result. What did you do in the second box just to the right of the ear in 052?


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Fred A

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Re: Too Quiet on the Eastern Front too

« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2020, 01:30:40 PM »

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Fred - I really like the result. What did you do in the second box just to the right of the ear in 052?

Just playing around for the best result. Tried to get detail in the flesh and the dark hair plus a touch of extra in the hat. Just another way to approach it.
The key is to remember: the operative word is detail, not color. ODR is looking at black and white, and shooting for the best shade to show max detail in the areas inside the boxes. It will lighten, darken add contrast whatever.
We were playing and I was telling Mike, This is why I love my Qimage; so easy to improve anything.
I sent him 048 to show how easy, and he sends back 052, just to ONE-UP me.
LOL LOL
True
Fred


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MelW

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Re: Too Quiet on the Eastern Front too

« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2020, 01:44:19 PM »

Really a great lesson. Because my first instinct would have been to add a little fill and then select an ODR spot - but that would probably have blown out the shirt completely. Thank you.


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Fred A

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Re: Too Quiet on the Eastern Front too

« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2020, 01:54:19 PM »

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Really a great lesson. Because my first instinct would have been to add a little fill and then select an ODR spot - but that would probably have blown out the shirt completely. Thank you.

Technically speaking, best to set Fill to zero before ODR. Then move it after ODR
I didn't Should have


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Fred A

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Re: Too Quiet on the Eastern Front too

« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2020, 02:00:43 PM »

Here's starting set to zero.


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Re: Too Quiet on the Eastern Front too

« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2020, 02:11:41 PM »

I always set fill to zero and then use ODR to get the lighting I want since ODR is better than fill light (keeps better detail). When using ODR, if I find an issue like the hair at the back of the hat being too dark, I just include a little chunk of hair in one of my ODR boxes and it brings the detail out.

Mike


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Fred A

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Re: Too Quiet on the Eastern Front too

« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2020, 07:29:54 PM »

More Too Quiet
Harking back to Bill's topic of what numbers to use for sharpening, here's one that needs no sharpening.
You have any like that?
Fred


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