Yellow Booost ?? On d750?

Borga Voffe

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As an attempt to get more "punch" in my dull pre spriing photos I applied that Yellow Boost filter in Photoshop

Now, that spring is all over us, should I continue to use it?

My d750 gives sooo nice photos out of the box, maybe I shouldnt add any fancy filters?
This farmhouse is with yellow boost;
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And this, taken just three days ago, also with yellow boost,

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Lastly, any comments on sharpening, --- do I add to much "smart sharpen filter"

Greetings from Norway!
 

Horoscope Fish

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As an attempt to get more "punch" in my dull pre spriing photos I applied that Yellow Boost filter in Photoshop

Now, that spring is all over us, should I continue to use it?

Lastly, any comments on sharpening, --- do I add to much "smart sharpen filter"

Greetings from Norway!
I'm not really sure what you mean by a "Yellow Boost" filter but, that aside, color correction and color balance is a matter of personal taste and a tool for creating the sort of mood you want from a photo. What you're trying to say with your photo should be your guide for how you adjust color. My personal method is to first correct color and then adjust it artistically. You don't have to it that way but to me it just makes sense to work artistically from a foundation of clean, accurate color to begin with.

As for the degree of sharpening it's pretty much impossible to tell from such small examples. When sharpening, you might find it helpful to copy the background layer (Ctrl+J), do your sharpening ON that New Layer and then adjust the opacity of the New Layer to suit you.
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Stoshowicz

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The filtering you did, IMO does make the pic look like a nicer sunnier day , and so If you're trying for that look, your method succeeded.
For sharpening in PS I liked 'unsharp mask' best , I felt it gave the most control,
( you can use it in either large radius with small intensity ,, Or large intensity over a smaller radius, which gives a totally different appearance.)
Just opinion
 

Bikerbrent

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Yes, I agree the yellow boost filter improves the final result, but that is a very personal call. The call is based on the story you want your picture to tell.
 

Dawg Pics

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Wouldn't a color filter affect the whites, which still look very white?
Yellow channel in the hue/saturation maybe? (Scratches head.). I guess that would just affect yellow, huh? (Scratches head some more.)

A[MENTION=41839]Borga Voffe[/MENTION]. Please tell us what you did. Inquiring minds want to know. ;)
 
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Borga Voffe

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In photoshop ---
Image --> Adjustments --> Hue/ Saturation --> Yellow boost
The next example means A LOT to me!

2017 is the first spring EVER I am using a full frame Nikon Camera!
(Last time was a Nikon F3, last time dig camera was a Canon d30 back in 2007)

This is what I am taking photos of - Flowers!
Excuse me, I picked wrong lens, wrecked the focus, was kind of a hurry :)

I really need a grip on how I adjust these, and I am using a Yellow Boost to try that

This is straight out of d750;

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This is my adjustment w Yellow boost and smart sharpen;

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What editing software do you use? Camera RAW offers several options if you shoot RAW. And even if you are shooting jpeg, all you are doing is making the color temperature warmer which can still be done in Camera RAW. It has to do with adjusting the White Balance. If you are shooting jpeg, I believe there is an in-camera menu setting to choose cloudy which adds a yellowish (warmer) color cast to the images.
 

Borga Voffe

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What editing software do you use? Camera RAW offers several options if you shoot RAW.

Really dont understand?? What software? I only use Photoshop CC 2017 -- is there any other options??
All my work is done in Nikon Electronic Format.
Reckon thats raw, any rate the files are very big. That flower was a 31 MB file.
 

Horoscope Fish

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In photoshop ---
Image --> Adjustments --> Hue/ Saturation --> Yellow boost
The next example means A LOT to me!

2017 is the first spring EVER I am using a full frame Nikon Camera!
(Last time was a Nikon F3, last time dig camera was a Canon d30 back in 2007)

This is what I am taking photos of - Flowers!
Excuse me, I picked wrong lens, wrecked the focus, was kind of a hurry :)

I really need a grip on how I adjust these, and I am using a Yellow Boost to try that

This is straight out of d750;

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This is my adjustment w Yellow boost and smart sharpen;

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Well I don't think there's any right or wrong answer here... You have to decide, as the photographer, how you want your photo to look. The adjustment you are performing modifies the color balance and overall saturation in your image. More specifically you'll see by default the "Yellow Boost" preset moves the Hue slider TOWARD the Blue end of the spectrum by +5 which is what creates the additional Yellow in the Yellow Boost preset since Blue is the opposite of Yellow on the color wheel. The other adjustment applies is to Saturation at +20; again assuming you are using the "Yellow Boost" preset defaults. This particular adjustment "boosts" all the colors of the image overall equally, yellow included, by 20 points. Now, making those adjustments is not something anyone can say is "right" or "wrong"; it's a matter of personal taste and what you are trying to communicate in your photo.

Just as a suggestion, you might want to use the Hue/Saturation adjustment layer from the Adjustments Panel instead of going to Image -> Adjustments. Using the Adjustments Panel will automatically add a white layer-mask allowing you to control where the adjustment is applied as well as give you access to the "Opacity" option to control how strong the adjustment is applied. It's two ways of doing the same thing, but using the Adjustment Layer panel gives you far more control over how the final product appears.
 
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Blacktop

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Really dont understand?? What software? I only use Photoshop CC 2017 -- is there any other options??
All my work is done in Nikon Electronic Format.
Reckon thats raw, any rate the files are very big. That flower was a 31 MB file.

Yes, there are plenty of other options and free ones at that.

Not to sound harsh or anything, but personally I don't see much difference between the two shots. Neither shot is very much in focus and there was no thought of an actual composition. Looks like you just happened upon a patch of flowers, pointed your camera straight down and hit the shutter. Nothing wrong with that if that's all you want to achieve, but if you're going to shoot flowers seriously, you might want to put a little more thought into it.
 

Borga Voffe

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seriously, you might want to put a little more thought into it.

Thats just me and how I snapshot. I have been doing this photoing since late 1970ies, starting with my Nikon F2 photomic, I just take the photo and are happy with it. I didnt give a shit if its a piece of art, and I still dont care if its a superb classy art of photo art deserving a space in Metropolitan :)
Actually, I have had ONE serious photo course, back in 1965, my teacher at high school arranged darkroom classes, some of us did get it and are now prof. photographers. I never got it, I just took of and walked in the forest and shot every patch of flowers I encountered.

Thats why all you are sayin about Layers dont fit in my brain. I have eventually seen that Photoshop is offering some layer option, but I havent the faintest idea of what it is. For me, it bring memories of ice cream topping of a cake, nothing else.

Now old and seriously dull, I still just take a shot of them patches. There was no room for me as serious or professional photographer, I dont consider myself as even an amateur photographer.

I am just the mountaineer walking the woods and mountains, who happens to bring along a camera to bring home some glimpses of what I experienced on that trip. I dont compose or give any big thougths of framing or exposure, I just point and shoot, hoping for the best.

Thats why I am walking around with a d750 and 24-120 and the 105 macro in the backpack.

I could easily used a Canon Ixus 70 instead, gotten all the photos I wanted. No problem at all. In fact I did that for some years, from 2001 to 2007, and again 2010 to 2014.

As I now look back at the thousands of jpegs I snapshot with that Ixus type, these are worthless, both regarding to use at my website, and as subject for enlargment when I need just one of the flowers in the patch I shot.

Thus enter the RAW and Canon d30 back in 2006, had it until 2010, sold it, was so stone broke.

These was photos of a quality usable for all my needs at web and enlargments.

Them years from 2010 uptil now was mainly at a Hospital, either seriously ill or recovering of loss of eyesight. Got kind of used to being a returning patient at our local Hospital :)

Thus enter Nikon D750.
Should I continue walking in the woods and mountains, snapshoting the flowes and mountains and my dog, I simply couldnt use an Ixus -- due to my bad eyesight I really didnt the what was going on on the screen ;-(
Thats why I dug out my old Nikon F3 HP from the attick. Hey! I could see everything in the finder!

And then the wallet decided between d810 and d750. Most of the lenses were my old friends, no problem. But the d750 solved every other problem, even with glasses I now see them patches of flowers, even in rain or snow covering both me, the finder and my dear beloved Nikon d750. Which in fact resembles very much the old Nikon F3 Hp "feeling" of nature photgraphy!

This is a yellow boosted photo from 2006;
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2008, with my lovely C d30;
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2016;
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Dawg Pics

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I don't have the serious vision issues you have, but I have become increasingly far-sighted. Can't read a menu without glasses, and I need bifocals to shoot. Flipping hate bifocals. Right now my bifocals are broken, and I am having a difficult time.

Sounds like you have a great time walking and enjoying nature. Glad you found a camera you can "see" with.
 

Borga Voffe

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Right now my bifocals are broken, and I am having a difficult time.
Sounds like you have a great time walking and enjoying nature. Glad you found a camera you can "see" with.

I am short sighted (myopia). Back in 2014, when I suddenly got stone cold blind due to herpes infection, I had used short sight glassees since high school in 1966. This is the most natural photo of me, back in 1988, me in the middle, I had been walking upright, now I have suffered a year with a mysterious brain damage causing my back to bend forwards -- me not able to stand upright not beeing able to walk;

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Well, this is taken with my F3 HP and Kodachrome 64, we all used that film back then.

Now, after several surgeries on my retinas /yepp both eyes was dimmed to black, I can see at 90%

The myopia is somewhat the same, as before I do read and see the d750 meenues when taking off my nearsight glasses. Hurrah! Alas, I cannot see the image on the screen I just have to look in the finder and trust the d750 to gotten AF spot on!

So thats really WHY I am unable to use any compact camera where the focus is adjusted by the screen only
I tried some cropped cameras. like fuju ex-1 and nikon d7200 and 5200, hopeless, I didnt see a darn thing in them tiny dark viewfinders!

So thats why my F3HP gave the solution and now I am happy again snap shoooting with a d750!!!

Well, most of the time I dont see where d750 focuses, I do se them tiny rectangles moving around and tries to fire shutter when some rectangles hover over the subject I do want to capture.

sigh...
 
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Dawg Pics

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Wow, that is a lot of health issues to deal with, but it sounds like you found a winner with the D750.
Thanks for sharing your story and images.
 
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