Love becomes our programme

[Pete Askew]

The mural dedicated to Karl Liebkneckt and Rosa Luxemburg in Potsdam. Cool and sheltered from the heat of late summer.

Leica M9 + Voightländer VM Nokton 40mm f1:1.4 SC. PP using a variant of the new Urban filter set.

 

[Hamish Gill]

I like that, apart from the way the blown highlight sky has gone that sort of false grey
maybe a pano crop for Chris, readdress the balance slightly!

 

[Pete Askew]

Yes, I'm not happy with the sky. I applied a slightly yellow gradient at the last minute to mute the blue fringes around the branches caused by the over-exposure in the sky (the tonal range was pretty well off-the-scale). I will revisit it this evening I think. Might even do a wide crop!!

 

[Pete Askew]

Hamish, your comment in the Sparrowhawk thread reminded me of the de-fringe tool in LR. This was probably a result of high contrast and the use of the SC lens. I'll try that this evening after deleting the yellow gradient.

 

[Brian Moore]

I learned something from this image, Pete. Before you posted it I didn't know who Leibknecht and Luxemburg were. Now I do. I don't speak German, though, so I don't know what the quote from Leibknecht actually says. (Although I now know it's in reference to the Spartacus movement.) I'm curious about the mosaic panel, though. It appears to portray a woman, hands to her face,...in anguish perhaps? Luxemburg? Also, are there other panels that tell a story of the Spartacists?

It's a nice image, Pete. If I were to re-take it, though, I think I would try moving a step to the right so as to close the gap between the wall with the words and the beginning of the mosaic panels. (I find myself trying to make out what car that is back there.)

 

[Paul Lange]

I did a very rough test in PS by just copying the image from the forum and working from that. You might have some luck using selective colour to select the blown out sky and creating a mask to let through a layer behind that has some almost washed out sky with the hint of texture. This way you avoid the rough edges at the edge of the mask.

 

[Hamish Gill]

I'm not sure the defringe in LR copes as well with this sort of fringing ... I'd be interested to see how you get on though!
It's one of my fave tools in LR to be fair, it saved a lot of photos for me!
The downfall of shooting wide open with wide lenses a lot at weddings
Even the 24-70 suffers from that sort of aberration sometimes, at that lens is almost perfect in many respects! (wouldn't mind vr on it mind )

 

[Paul Lange]

Hi Pete, hope you don't mind. This is what I was talking about. This is of course just work on the copied jpeg and the sky was an image I found on Google images but it gives the right idea. I changed the tone of the image a little because the new sky gave the greenery a strange blue tinge. I changed the tone of the whole image but this could be localised. I think the edges of the leaves will need a bit of work but not sure as this was a low res image and some of that issue could be down to that.

Does anyone think it has worked.

 

[Pete Askew]

Thanks Paul. That's definitely better and I will return to the original. I also want to look again at the highlight between the walls.