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[The Vulcan]

Koh Samui beach

Fuji 645 - Provia @ 200asa - scanned image

[astral]

That is superb, with the calm of the reflections of the boat contrasting with the building storm clouds

and the fury to come.

Was it shot in BW or processed?

A good choice either way.

[yorkman]

I was wondering myself how you did that Vulcan

Provia 200 is colour slide film right?

Its very nice indeed

[The Vulcan]

Yes Provia is slide film - 100 asa rated at 200 asa to reduce contrast

Original scan attached - treated as follows in LIGHTROOM

Blue Hue +8

Blue Saturation -93

Brightness +129

Contrast +44

Green Hue +51

Green Saturation -84

Highlight Recovery 84

Luminance Adjustment Blue -67

Parametric Darks -8

Parametric Highlight Split 75

Parametric Highlights +8

Parametric Lights +15

Parametric Midtone Split 50

Parametric Shadow Split 25

Parametric Shadows -30

Red Hue +60

Red Saturation -18

Saturation -51

Saturation Adjustment Aqua 0

Saturation Adjustment Blue +58

Shadows 14

Vibrance +95

[yorkman]

Ahhh I see!

You certainly had some very special light on the original unless you had a filter on.

Well worth scanning then, you just made it better still

[Chang_paarp]

If you rated the Provia at 200 did you have the processing altered? A 30% increase in dev time to take into account the underexposure would have increased the contrast, and leaving the the underexposed film would not have altered the contrast just moved the shadows into the mud and reduced the highlight. Then again it depends where the light reading was taken and what was considered significant at the time.

That said, the image is great, it almost monochrome with just enough colour to information.

[gampaan]

Very cool indeed. I love storms and lightning images. Great shot. Love the color.

[PadThaiGuy]

Dramatic... pulls the viewer right into the scene.

Nice.

[jukapot]

I don't feel comfortable critiquing your photos since you obviously so much more advanced than I. But I can give honest opinions and that is what I want when I post my pictures here.

Why is there so much purple in the photo?. I think more grey would have been more natural. The small boat in the foreground seems to have unnatural lighting. The back of the boat is light from the rear yet the sun appears in the background. The reflection of the boat in the water show a bright blue, much brighter than the boat itself.

Keep posting i enjoy your posts and comments.

I played with your photo with Photo Shop's Raw Editor. Since I discovered that I can use this powerful editor with jpeg and tiff files, I am having great fun with it.

[The Vulcan]

Don't worry about being critical of my submissions - that's the whole point of this sub-forum.

Answering your points:-

I coloured the shot to my own personal taste. You'll see from the thread the changes I made. I didn't initially consider the colours, but eventually elected the configuration to emphasise the mood. On my screen, the colouring is more blue/grey than purple.

I didn't really make any specific adjusts to create the "unnatural" lighting - this effect came about naturally (!) as I was making the overall brightness/contrast and curves adjustments.

Overall, I manipulated the original image to arrive at what I considered was the shot I was after.

Thanks for your comments.

[sbk]

IMO it looks better and more dramatic with the coloring. It gives it a more artisitic feel rather than just a straight photo of a boat on a cloudy day.

[jukapot]

Thanks, I learned something by questioning.