Hecate

In the previous message DD wrote:

better Hecate?

http://home.intekom.com/davesplace/framed/giraffe-old.jpg
http://home.intekom.com/davesplace/framed/giraffe-new.jpg

I’m not Hecat (obviously) but I think that the subtle color change is better…
Babs

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 23:36:43 +0200, DD wrote:

better Hecate?

http://home.intekom.com/davesplace/framed/giraffe-old.jpg
http://home.intekom.com/davesplace/framed/giraffe-new.jpg

Yes, a lot better. You might want to run the eye dropper over the shadows on the upper neck, but that might just be my eyes. If there’s any green it’s very faint and probably just me being picky 😉

I think what happened is that you were getting the light box effect of the overcast sky reflecting off the foliage and giving the green cast to the giraffe (as opposed to the blue cast you normally get with ove5rcast sky).. A quick in camera fix is a light magenta colour correction filter (I carry one around if I’m going to take images where fluorescent light is present because of the same green cast). I know many will say you can do it in PS (as you’ve just proved) but I always try and get best possible result in camera first.

A good picture – you often see giraffe pix where they’re not actually doing anything except sitting around and looking tall 😉

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Hecate – The Real One

Fashion: Buying things you don’t need, with money
you don’t have, to impress people you don’t like…

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:58:53 -0500, "BubblyBabs" wrote:

In the previous message DD wrote:

better Hecate?

http://home.intekom.com/davesplace/framed/giraffe-old.jpg
http://home.intekom.com/davesplace/framed/giraffe-new.jpg

I’m not Hecat (obviously) but I think that the subtle color change is better…
Babs

thanks Babs:-)

Dave

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:55:45 +0100, Hecate wrote:

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 23:36:43 +0200, DD wrote:

better Hecate?

http://home.intekom.com/davesplace/framed/giraffe-old.jpg
http://home.intekom.com/davesplace/framed/giraffe-new.jpg

Yes, a lot better. You might want to run the eye dropper over the shadows on the upper neck, but that might just be my eyes. If there’s any green it’s very faint and probably just me being picky 😉

are you saying you are downright persnickety?
I’ll run the eyedropper over it…

I think what happened is that you were getting the light box effect of the overcast sky reflecting off the foliage and giving the green cast to the giraffe (as opposed to the blue cast you normally get with ove5rcast sky).. A quick in camera fix is a light magenta colour correction filter (I carry one around if I’m going to take images where fluorescent light is present because of the same green cast). I know many will say you can do it in PS (as you’ve just proved) but I always try and get best possible result in camera first.

thanks, youre diagnosis must be what caused it,
and is quite educational to me (serious). Also thanx
for the correction filter tip, but a green cast would
not be so obvious in the pre-view on the camera.
Think I’ll add one of those filters to my bag.

What I proved in PS was with Mike’s help.

A good picture – you often see giraffe pix where they’re not actually doing anything except sitting around and looking tall 😉

thanks, for a moment I thought I did the green cast when editing it, but it is on the original. The original is at: (his name is Gambit and he is so tame, when passing him with my car, my wife and I stop and walk to him for a chat:-)
http://home.intekom.com/davesplace/1/gambit0215.jpg

Dave

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:38:46 +0200, DD wrote:

Yes, a lot better. You might want to run the eye dropper over the shadows on the upper neck, but that might just be my eyes. If there’s any green it’s very faint and probably just me being picky 😉

are you saying you are downright persnickety?
I’ll run the eyedropper over it…

Yep! <g>

I think what happened is that you were getting the light box effect of the overcast sky reflecting off the foliage and giving the green cast to the giraffe (as opposed to the blue cast you normally get with ove5rcast sky).. A quick in camera fix is a light magenta colour correction filter (I carry one around if I’m going to take images where fluorescent light is present because of the same green cast). I know many will say you can do it in PS (as you’ve just proved) but I always try and get best possible result in camera first.

thanks, youre diagnosis must be what caused it,
and is quite educational to me (serious). Also thanx
for the correction filter tip, but a green cast would
not be so obvious in the pre-view on the camera.
Think I’ll add one of those filters to my bag.

They are useful. Obviously outside in daylight you often get a blue cast of one kind or another which is easily solved with an 81 series filter, but I do find on overcast days that you often get green casts on some objects/animals in the wild because of that effect.

A good picture – you often see giraffe pix where they’re not actually doing anything except sitting around and looking tall 😉

thanks, for a moment I thought I did the green cast when editing it, but it is on the original. The original is at: (his name is Gambit and he is so tame, when passing him with my car, my wife and I stop and walk to him for a chat:-)
http://home.intekom.com/davesplace/1/gambit0215.jpg

Yeah., I can see the green as soon as I look at it. You won’t get this off the sort of dried grass you have there, but the bush that Gambit is eating has shiny leaves so it’s acting like a green reflector. Still a nice shot though 🙂

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Hecate – The Real One

Fashion: Buying things you don’t need, with money
you don’t have, to impress people you don’t like…