POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Extreme close-up : Re: Extreme close-up Server Time
5 Jul 2024 06:37:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Extreme close-up  
From: Stephen
Date: 15 Feb 2016 04:36:20
Message: <56c19c14$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/15/2016 9:08 AM, clipka wrote:
> Am 15.02.2016 um 09:57 schrieb Stephen:
>> On 2/15/2016 8:15 AM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>> On 15/02/2016 04:47 AM, Mike Horvath wrote:
>>>> Those are all very nice, but the colors are not very vibrant, and there
>>>> is not a lot of contrast between the lights and darks. Sunnier weather
>>>> might make for easier pictures.
>>>
>>> Yeah, having an expensive camera makes it possible to get much closer
>>> shots, but no camera on Earth allows me to control the Sun, sadly. :-(
>>
>> Wrong!
>> First you need a virgin and a sharp knife... ;)
>>
>> Actually I think that they are just a tad overexposed.
>>
>> I adjusted the exposure in Paint Shop Pro. What do you think of these two?
>
> I think Andy's original posts look pretty realistic, much more so than
> your tweaked versions.
>

I prefer Andrew's too. The colours look quite naturalistic, to me. But 
some people prefer a more dramatic image.
Reminds me of the time a colleague and I spent a day installing and 
setting up a TV projector. We were quite pleased with ourselves until 
our American OIM said it wasn't vibrant enough. Grrr! :)

-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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