An old one revisited....

[Cem_Usakligil]

I have just came across this picture of mine which I had shared almost 7 years ago. The original picture has long been lost so the chances are slim that many of you have seen it before. Anyway, I was curious how it would look like if processed using the new generation raw converters and tools. I can attest to it that there is a certain improvement to the tonality and the details in this one.

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[Maggie Terlecki]

This is great, Cem. Makes me want to move to Europe and wander through places that have history and charm. I look at this and smile; the dog wandering through does seems completely natural and nobody bats an eyelash.
Maggie

 

[nicolas claris]

Good exercise Cem (and nice atmosphere caught btw)…
I used to keep my converted raw to tiff 16 bit for future use, but for a while now, I know that for pics older than a year, I always prefer to restart from the raw…
It's incredible the progress they make (and maybe the user as well

 

[Chris Calohan II]

With Cem's permission, I am presenting an edit I sent to him via PM. It is not a major change, but I felt as if there was too much of a yellow-ish-ness in the ceiling and facial shadows which wouldn't be there given the white balance provided by the large white globes lighting the scene. I did add a touch of blue and cyan back to the chrome, etc.

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

This is great, Cem. Makes me want to move to Europe and wander through places that have history and charm. I look at this and smile; the dog wandering through does seems completely natural and nobody bats an eyelash.
Maggie

Thanks Maggie. The dog was very cute.

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

Good exercise Cem (and nice atmosphere caught btw)…
I used to keep my converted raw to tiff 16 bit for future use, but for a while now, I know that for pics older than a year, I always prefer to restart from the raw…
It's incredible the progress they make (and maybe the user as well

Precisely! That's why I've been shooting raw from my very first dslr on.

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

With Cem's permission, I am presenting an edit I sent to him via PM. It is not a major change, but I felt as if there was too much of a yellow-ish-ness in the ceiling and facial shadows which wouldn't be there given the white balance provided by the large white globes lighting the scene. I did add a touch of blue and cyan back to the chrome, etc.

Thanks a lot Chris for the suggestion. I haven't had the chance to look art it on my calibrated monitor yet.

Regarding the wb of the globes, they were fully blown. I've pulled the highlights back to prevent them from having 255/255/255 but this introduces a neutral light grey. So they cannot be used as a reference for wb purposes. But I still remember that they had a warm yellow hue in real life, that explains the yellows in the ceiling and the faces.

 

[fahim mohammed]

Nice atmospheric capture Cem.

Raw? What's that"

Regards.

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

Hi Chris,

I have now had the chance to look at your work on my calibrated monitor. I think that you have taken away more warmth than the picture warrants imo. After all, this is not a matter of trying to achieve the correct WB (which would be vain anyway under multiple light sources and shot without a target). I prefer the warmth of my original version and it is purely subjective. But thanks a lot for your effort, I appreciate it.

 

[Asher Kelman]

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Well, Cem, we were always promised this benefit and for sure it's getting better. Capture One is currently really noticeably better than the earliest versions.

I remember this picture, and I like it then. I still am enjoying it as it's very genuine and rich.

As to Jim's color correction, I'm pleased with the sportiveness on both your parts for trying, but as we've learned from Maggie's cyan infusion, a color cast can be exactly the touch to spice the image correctly. As is, the color is rich, as if a painter put each one in place and assumed thy worked outside and drank regularly each night.

I'd have picked a WB reference from the newspaper and not from the lights which have no detail and therefore much of the spectrum of light is missing way to the right anyway.

Asher

 

[Paul Abbott]

This is a nice, warm and atmospheric shot of a bar interior. I like the balance between the stools and those globe lights too.