ku # 1253 ~ nite life in the woods # 2

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.