Clown fish

Critiques [Translate]

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• hummingbird24 (64)
• [2005-11-02 14:51]
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Nice capture, beautiful colors, great POV, sharp details and lighting.

These guys always look (IMO), as though they have much attitude, which I like ... in a fish :-))

Thank you for this great posting, Alain!

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• liquidsunshine (11488)
• [2005-11-02 15:59]

Nice shot Alain,
Great colour, detail and sharpness. Good POV. Well framed and good notes too.
Thanks for posting, enjoy the rest of the week.

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• cecilia (4628)
• [2005-11-02 18:33]

Excellent capture,looks very stylist...:)
Well taken...
Cesie

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• marhowie (34891)
• [2005-11-02 19:56]

Very nice capture Alain. Running late this evening :-( Thank You.

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• glazzaro (4497)
• [2005-11-02 20:52]

Good shot, just a suggestion, but if you reduce the input levels just a hair and increase highlights about 10%, I think your shot would gain more appearance of depth. Just a suggestion, still a nice shot.

Greg

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• TAZ (10922)
• [2005-11-03 3:32]

What a good and interesting shot ! Congratulations Alain and thanks for sharing.

" the Life is so rare in the universe and the Nature so precious, take care of them! " Christian...

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• scottevers7 (12259)
• [2005-11-03 8:03]

Hi Alain,
Excellent shot. Great clarity and detail in this shot. Everyone is so used to seeing the Orange/Red ones, you forget that they are also yellow.
Scott

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• alexbf (61)
• [2005-11-03 8:20]
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Superbe photo Alain. Ce n'est pas facile à prendre à travers une vitre. Les couleurs sont superbes et le poisson est très net.

Bravo

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• Graal (5002)
• [2005-11-03 8:36]

Unusual fish, Alain. Excellent colours. Interesting note. I like it. Really well done.
Rgs, Aleksander

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• manyee (19892)
• [2005-11-03 10:29]

Excellent underwater shot, Alain. Fantastic POV. Beautiful colors and markings on this fish. AAhh... Club Med in Egypt.... sounds heavenly.
Well done and TFS. : )

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• ellis49 (28899)
• [2005-11-03 11:18]

Hi Alan,
it's a beautiful fish you have caught.
The colours are lovely, well composed and good details.
The DOF is very good for an UW photo.
You did a good scanning job.
Very well done.

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• dew77 (13069)
• [2005-11-07 2:43]

Hello Alain!
Very nice close up.Colors,POV,framing,details and composition are wonderful.TFS...:-)

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• delfi (44)
• [2005-11-12 23:54]

Continued: part 2

Now look at the black of your pictures: you will see that the black is not really black, but has been lifted: a white haze can be seen in the black of your photos.

This is the result of boosting brightness too much: black isn't black anymore and contrast has become less*.

*It is technically possible to remedy this by simply boosting contrast along with brightness (paired), but this only works to some degree, to the maximum level of contrast, beyond which the overall lightness seems to swap and the picture gets a bit darker again (maximum contrast threshold has been surpassed)

This brightness boost introduces bleaching of colors. The digital color-system in computers works with a 2D-plane of hue, saturation and luminance, the result of mixing values of the RGB-levels (see the field in "color change"). When the luminance of colors is exactly in the mid-value (120), saturation of colors is maximum. Boosting luminance in this case now will result in bleaching (pastel-colors or white "added"). Lowering luminance will make the colors darker (black "added"). In both cases GREY-ing of colors will occur...

It is this system that is used in the computer in order to depict either highlights (lum. 120+ range) or shadow (lum. 120- range) of perfectly saturated colors (lum.=120).

You can experiment a little with these values in for example MS-paint.

By boosting brightness too much, luminance of colors is also boosted (120+ ranges) and thus perceived saturation of colors becomes less: and this is what causes the bleaching. (However it is possible to boost saturation again after boosting brightness, but too much of this tinkering, and we'll loose track of what we were doing; result=off)

In other words, you will find that if you cut overall-brightness of your pictures by a couple of clicks, the colors of for instance the little fishy (part 1) will become a little bit deeper, more saturated. And this is what (we) colorists all want: COLOR !

Tada !


As this is what you systematically seem to be doing wrong (too much brightness), anyway in my 1-star Divers-license Electronics Engineering etc. etc. etc. opinion , so I took the liberty (?) to write you this little something.

So please remedy this, and you'll do just fine.

Further nothing but praise.

Best Regards.

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• Toni (2034)
• [2005-11-16 8:24]

Bonjour Alain
Belle prise de Nemo. J'espère qu'il ne s'est pas fait mangé par un requin...
Belles couleurs et détails des petites bulles.
Salutations Toni

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• AnimalExplorer (8614)
• [2005-12-28 19:27]

Very nice close-up of this cute clownfish Alain, I hope you have a Happy New Year! :)

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• Luce (58)
• [2006-03-27 9:50]

Très jolie photo de Nemo,
C'est surement difficille d'obtenir des images aussi nettes dans l'eau. Même les grains de sable sont nets. Les couleurs sont très belles et très riches. Le cadrage serré et la composition me plaisent bien. Bravo pour cette image superbe.