Hi guys
Apologies for the late reply into this thread - i've been away all weekend and wanted to see the images on a proper LCD instead of the laptop screen.
Thanks for all your efforts and explanations - it's great to see how people treat the same data with their favourite programs.
I'd like to comment on a few of the examples - please don't take my comments as criticism. I'm just hoping to share my opinion in order to hopefully help you become a better image processor.
Andy - your version appears to be a little blunt on the noise reduction and sharpening, plus it's lacking colour and has ended up as browns and whites with not much in-between.
Erfain, I really like your version - lots of detail visible though on this screen it appears a little bit dull and the edges are a bit sharp. Check the levels in PS2 and perhaps try lifting the white point a bit, and maybe a feather around the edges (3px or so) with a guassian blur might help soften the hard edge. Otherwise very nice, I like it a lot - and I like how you used CS2 only - I can learn a lot from your processing.
John - yours is very nice also, quite similar to how I get mine to look though I do capture with a high gamma and high gain so the image can look washed out if it's not reduced in post-processed. Your version appears (to me) to still be a little washed out and could probably do with some curves adjustment but I do love the colour and detail.
By way of comparison, here is my version of processing on the same data, done back at the time of capture.
Of course, processing is a very subjective thing and what looks good to one person might look oversharpened, or the wrong colour, or whatever, to someone else.
I hope this project has helped anyway, and I'm happy to do the same again in future when I've got good data to share.
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