Your playing around with the RGB channels inspiredd me to do the same.
I first looked at the histogram of his image… you can clearly see the peak of the sky, and the rest, which is the foreground is the interesting part. If you just look at the rest (in his image the lower 2/3 of the histogram), then the red peaks on the light tones, the green peaks on the middle tones and the blue exists only on the shadows.
I tried to mimic that in Gimp by fixing the histogram of all three channels somewhat to the left of the sky-peak and the doing as I wrote above: reds peak in the highlights, green peak in the mids, blues peak in the shadows. finished by adjusting the overall luminosity.
Here’s an example, split in the middle with the original image to the left (excuse the rear, I was looking for an image quickly, which had kind of the same colors):
Time of day, day of year, sky, geographic location, medium format, film? Skill and eye of the photographer.
Trying to post all that will result in one mangled photo… Regardless of postprocessing skills you can’t make a good carbonara out of ala Norma ingredients!
@nosle I agree with you on most counts. Good pasta is especially hard to fake, if not impossible. However, all those things said, there ought to be a way to state what causes those particular colours. There ought to be a means to edit, which produces that general feel of tones; like dominating greens, dark green shadows, and such. I know I’ve seen this look before, though not sure where. It must be possible to reproduce.
It’s Kodak. The NC bit is important because it’s the daylight Natural Colour version. Must be a haldclut out there already. Edit : oops thought you wrote who not what…
@nosle I don’t doubt there is a nice clut and that it works amazingly, I just want to know what that clut does. I want to put those settings into RT and learn from them and eventually tweak
I remember trying ages ago when i moved to digital. Can’t say it was ever successful. Perhaps this one but only because I was helped by the strange light that day. Was shot with a Pentax K100D, a digital camera.
Alright, I’ve done some work and now I’ve got something to show for it. Here’s what I’ve got after some tweaking. I’ll upload now and answer questions when at work tomorrow if anyone is interested.
Might be of interest. Done this way due to discussions about gamma years ago. Also messed with the blue channel due to some of the whites. I did that rather than use a white balance. Another option.
Bit of a problem using RT. If viewed in an app that just uses the system colour management RT’s sRGB profile changes how it looks. Seems to be down to freeing gamma. So loaded it into the GIMP and selected convert which seems to loose any colour profile that might happen to be included.
Only some one that was there can know how it looked though. Grass can be that mix of yellow and green.
Reduced and sharpened in Fotoxx 'cause I wont finally sharpen at anything other than the final size. Happier about viewing all sorts of things that way really. Maybe RT could add a preview option that uses decent quality reduction software.
Just noticed slight banding in the sky. So sorry etc.
Just noticed slight banding in the sky. So sorry etc.