A Very Smooth Looking House

[mugge]

I wanted to try out a low contrast picture. This is my first effort. C&C most welcome.

[Donald]

Ole

How did you process this? Was it with Nik's Silver Efex Pro? The effect is similar to that achieved with quite heavy use of the 'Soft Contrast' slider.

If you look at the histogram, you see that this is, in fact, not a particularly low contrast image. The histogram is quite well spread across from nearly black to nearly white; i.e. from 14 at the left end to 253 at the right end.

Definitely starting the right way in terms of thinking about low contrast images, but you have to choose your subject carefully. You can't create effective low contrast in post-processing. The subject has to be a low contrast subject to start with. And I don't think this subject was low contrast enough for that purpose.

But please keep at it. I love making low contrast images.

[Manfred M]

+1 to Donald's comments.

As a general observation, post-processing alone cannot be the main tool to create a particular type of image, and as Donald has already pointed out, your starting point is definitely NOT low contrast (look at all the dark and light parts of the image). You need to start with a low contrast scene and then work with it.

In this image you seem to have removed texture from the image, and in my view, this does not result in an image that is particularly compelling or appealing to look at.

[IzzieK]

Nice try, Ole...clean.

[mugge]

Donald, I have not been able to get any information on the Nik's Silver Efex Pro here in Melbourne. Will persevere though.
Thank you for your constructive comments and Izzie for your positive comment

[Donald]

Donald, I have not been able to get any information on the Nik's Silver Efex Pro here in Melbourne. Will persevere though.

Ole - https://www.google.com/nikcollection...lver-efex-pro/

[bnnrcn]

Hi Ole The looks very smooth and as Manfred mentioned the texture seems lost. Is it possible that you applied too much noise reduction in PP?

[Rebel]

Hi Ole The looks very smooth and as Manfred mentioned the texture seems lost. Is it possible that you applied too much noise reduction in PP?

You can achieve this look by sliding the "Clarity" slider in ACR all the way to the left

[bnnrcn]

Thanks Matt I know that clarity slider gives a softer look when it is slided to the left but smoothness of this image has reminded me too much noise reduction rather than reducing the clarity. Well, whatever it is IMO it looks a bit too much.

You can achieve this look by sliding the "Clarity" slider in ACR all the way to the left