ku # 1253 ~ nite life in the woods # 2
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 11:01AM 
3AM full moon ~ Rist Camp / Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenWoke up last night about 3AM to make water and I noticed that it was rather bright outside, hence the picture.
The picture required a fair amount of processing in order for it to look like night time as opposed to a night-for-day kinda of look which is the de rigueur look which seems to be the preferred look of most night time landscape picture makers.
FYI, my first from Rist Camp iPad picture processing and posting, civilized ku # 2575-79 ... et al, was less than successful inasmuch as the app I was using - photogenie - isn't very good at downsampling files for use on the web. Things get a bit unsharp which kinda sucks. So I tried another app - photoforge - which does a fine job of downsampling but not so good at preserving the density / tonal quality of the processed image.
Each app has various processing capabilities that the other does not - photogenie has burn, dodge, and cloning tools whereas photoforge does not. Photoforge has layers which photogenie does not. Photoforge also has an equivalent of the PS History Palette which is a very useful capability. There are other differences as well.
Consequently, my current iPad processing workflow is to start out with photogenie, save and open in photoforge for further processing. After processing and downsampling in photoforge, I have created a workaround using Curves in photoforge which preserves the tonal quality of the file for use on the web.
Reader Comments (2)
Have you tried Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad? I have used it a bit and found it quite good but I am not as sophisticated at these things as you are.
This should not be confused by Photoshop Express, which has many limitations.
Now that's an image that I'd like to see printed - both because I can connect with the subject and its representation, and because I guess this is an awfully difficult print to make, regarding the limited brightness as well as dealing with the shadows (Would you let them just go black, if not, how much detail can be retained there - I couldn't decide until I saw it on paper).