Camilla Fox - Trees allow second chances

I like how the light through the leaves seems brighter than the sky. Baby oak leaves are so pretty. :)

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Could you try turning the red waaaay up in the berries in the original? The original was very nice as is, I thought.

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It took me a while to get my head around it, but if I do an RGB decomposition on the original, the green and red channels look almost the same, so turning up the red just makes the sky mauve without bringing out much in the way of details.

Here's where the reds actually are, if I do an HSV decomposition, and use curves to pick out the reds on the hue part.


If I try picking out particular colors, I find that many of the browns on the buds and tassle are shared with the edges of the leaves, and can't be safely brightened. The trick is that I need to say "more red than anything else" rather than "near this brown" to be sufficiently selective.

I was playing with overlaying the red part of the hue decomposition on top of the unmodified image, but the result is a little mangy looking, and gimp crashed as I tried to save it.

I'd punted the stuff on the right when I cropped it because I didn't like how the bottom of the tassle was out of focus; if I'm not allowing myself to spot-edit, I should have been more careful about setting up the shot.

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Here's what I get if I add the red values back in, with a gaussian blur over that layer to make it less grainy.

It does work well on the tassle, but the twig buds look scary to me.

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