Mollusca Code

I’m simply amazed once again, how much information there is in a single RAW-file. I with my humble editing skills am able to pull of stunts like the following:

Image the way that Canon DPP and Lightroom both agreed more or less agreed should look like:

Here’s what there is to do to get the following result:

1. The white balance is off. I used a flash, but bounced it off a wall, so it’s not the cameras, DPPs or LRs fault, that it’s set to “flash”
2. Tweak in LR ‘till cooked right
   1. Pull up exposure a bit.
   2. Adjust white balance.
   3. Pull up the exposure some more, so we have a black spot and a white spot (at least something close to both)
3. Off to editing in LAB mode
   1. Tweak curve of L-channel to get the highlights punchy.
   2. Some more monkeying around with the L-Curve
   3. Apply very moderate unsharp mask
   4. steepen the b-curve a tad, remove slight color cast at the same time.
4. done.