Rose Weir
Active Member
- Joined
- Dec 9, 2008
- Messages
- 293
- Location
- Chesley Ontario Canada
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
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The image is balanced after the basic V4 sliders....BUT...there is a black clipping triangle.
Hold the Alt key and hover over the triangle displays small areas(rock crevices, along a roof line etc) I can use the -shadow brush and the clipping triangle will go to dark blue ....or
I go to my point curve settings where I saved a black clipping ONLY setting. The black end point was pushed up just a little.
I have moved the black slider well into the plus side and that just dilutes or flattens the image.
These images were in high direct light on rock structures so contrasty. While testing the v4 beta I went for situations where the lighting was on the extreme side i.e bright sunlight, white snow, overcast, snow falling or mid day clouds moving, rock outcroppings. The final version arrived as the rocks and water setting was used. It was an F9.5, F11 and some F13 settings at Iso 400 (and still blew out the sky but V4 does give back sky cloud detail)
Its miniscule black clipping on the actual image and it could be a 'hang over' from past versions where I consider it a cardinal sin to have clipping.
It doesn't affect the 'soft proof'.
What does affect the soft proof is if I do not have enough exposure setting then its a 'flat soft proof'
It appears to me the emphasis on the midtone developing..(middle out to end routine) doesn't fit, totally, with extreme lighting situations so instead of feeling like I have cheated I suspect the 'expected' routine is to nudge the point curve. Is this so?
Rose
Hold the Alt key and hover over the triangle displays small areas(rock crevices, along a roof line etc) I can use the -shadow brush and the clipping triangle will go to dark blue ....or
I go to my point curve settings where I saved a black clipping ONLY setting. The black end point was pushed up just a little.
I have moved the black slider well into the plus side and that just dilutes or flattens the image.
These images were in high direct light on rock structures so contrasty. While testing the v4 beta I went for situations where the lighting was on the extreme side i.e bright sunlight, white snow, overcast, snow falling or mid day clouds moving, rock outcroppings. The final version arrived as the rocks and water setting was used. It was an F9.5, F11 and some F13 settings at Iso 400 (and still blew out the sky but V4 does give back sky cloud detail)
Its miniscule black clipping on the actual image and it could be a 'hang over' from past versions where I consider it a cardinal sin to have clipping.
It doesn't affect the 'soft proof'.
What does affect the soft proof is if I do not have enough exposure setting then its a 'flat soft proof'
It appears to me the emphasis on the midtone developing..(middle out to end routine) doesn't fit, totally, with extreme lighting situations so instead of feeling like I have cheated I suspect the 'expected' routine is to nudge the point curve. Is this so?
Rose