Hi’ Everyone
Thank you for your feedback on “A closer look on the sky and the Sibillini Mountains”.
@ggbutcher I’m always looking forward to read your input and I would love to study the result of your examination of the histograms if and when you get the possibility to have a closer look.
Based on yours and others input I think that we can conclude the discussion as follows:
“No, it is not worthwhile struggling with input profiles. Go default and take it from there!”
Correct?
The above statement seems to be very close to:
“No, it is not worthwhile struggling with input profiles. Go neutral and take it from there!”
By neutral I mean: RT – neutral processing profile, DT – base curve turned off.
If you go neutral then your starting point is further away from the dcp-result, which would you be my ambition for the editing result. This is a disadvantage, is it not?
@sankos Awesome comment: “this is a typical Nikon blue sky” and yes, I like the sky but I prefer the dcp sky.
In fact I liked the default result very much until I had a closer look on the sky. I agree that the mountain haze looks natural in the default version. How to transform the default sky without changing the mountain haze using RT? I would apply a mask using DT.
@paulmiller I like your simplistic approach. I have a tendency to think that I must be missing something not using the advanced tools. This thread has shown that this is not always the case.
No wonder that you have to increase the exposure when you turn off the base curve. The photo was deliberately under-exposed and the base curve (or the profiles) lightens the whole image and boosts the highlights.
It’s even more simplistic not to turn the base curve off, then you just have to open the photo in DT. I like the result even better. What do you think?