After shooting with my 350D for the last two years I am beginning to actually take a look at the tools I have available and fiddle around to see what I can do to enhance or improve my images. This is my first attempt at leveraging Ufraw for strictly white balance and temperature adjustment and Gimp for a tone mapping and color adjustments. For this image I created three layers:
Top = Multiply, 30% Transparency
Middle = Divide, Desaturate-Average, Invert, 50% Transparency
Bottom = Original image
This image is a little noisy because I saved it down for the web to save a couple of pennies with hosting, you can see the original on Flickr (only if we are contacts, I’m still hiding from Orkut).
Tags: Gabriella, Gimp, Photography, Post-Processing
Do you mean a bigger version of the image is on flickr, rather than the origional? Anyway.. amazing shot!
LOL. True. True. Flickr has a near perfect copy of the RAW file with the post work applied.
How much bandwidth do you use? I have a hobby server, free from work. If you wanted to store full size files on there, or even want hosting, I’d be willing to provide it for free
It is here in the UK though.. when I save enough money up, I’ll look at replacing the hardware, probably… currently it’s running on a slowish P4, but can’t complain, it was free
Thanks for the offer, I’m going to wake up my S3 account and use that for a little bit and see how it works out (it certainly is cheap enough). The hosting package I’m using has plenty of room if it were just me but I’m also hosting for a couple of other friends so I want to make sure I don’t eat up all the resources.
I loved self-hosting and am hoping that at some point I can get back to it, this site had run out of the house for a number of years until traffic got to the point that at times the DSL was practically unusable. Maybe when I feel much more well heeled I can fire up an instance on EC2 and host from there…