The two biggest differences that I see is that Honda red is now Honda burgundy and there has been a lot of noise introduced into the image. As an aside, it looks like they need a sensor cleaning as well!

A suitable edit depending on the style, but for a realistic/PJ edit, it misses the mark.

 

What's a realistic /PJ edit? It would be great to see an example of your workflow on the same image.

 

PJ (Photojournalism) editing is extermely limited and sometime nonexistant. a 'Realistic' edit would be something that reflected the actual moment of time, not as modified via PS.

If the goal was to go for a pleasing transformation of the image (punching up the color, contrast, etc) then it's there. I just noticed the colors being off as well as the noise. Since I shoot drag racers of many different colors, I have to remember the exact color of that car and thus, it's one of the first things that I noticed. I'm not saying the edit is bad, those two items just happen to be what I spend alot of time on.

Shoot me a full size JPEG or RAW file (importable into CS2) and I'll edit it after I return from shooting clubs in Austin later in the week.

 

Dude.. that's the whole point. I was using the 164Kb file shown above. If I were given a RAW file, the colors would have been better.

 

Good tutorial.

I didn't like the oversaturated original colors. Too much nuclear-glow on monitor. The Honda sign's white-area darkening is a personal choice but I liked the play of the original against the car. Makes the eye move a little more. Depends on what you want the image to say. I tend to add a gradient-masked blur, matching up to distance, to the background in addition to subtle darkening to make foregrounds pop.

 

ok, and my point is that the colors are more accurate in the original file. The noise is also a by-product of the edit.

The end game is this: Why mess with a partial file?

 

I like the colors in the PP'd photo better on my calibrated monitor, and I like the non-PP'd colors better on my non-calibrated monitor.....go figure.

 

because I $$ck at it and he wanted to help me.

 

Great thread.

I much prefer the post processed image. It "draws the eye" more.

 

[QUOTE=iLuveketchup,Jun 17 2007, 11:19 PM]Thanks for the comments guys!