Easy On The Saturation Control, Buddy

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Easy On The Saturation Control, Buddy

Postby Mike Farley » Thu 17 Mar 2016, 08:39

This article will probably disappear behind the Luminous Landscape paywall over the next day or two, so head over there while you can. I cannot disagree with the sentiment that family outings and serious photography rarely go hand, but was taken aback at how so many otherwise potentially good shots were ruined by the overblown colours.

https://luminous-landscape.com/improve- ... ng-longer/
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Re: Easy On The Saturation Control, Buddy

Postby davidc » Mon 21 Mar 2016, 04:06

I get an SSL error trying to open the page... maybe it's already behind the paywall.
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Re: Easy On The Saturation Control, Buddy

Postby Mike Farley » Mon 21 Mar 2016, 07:54

davidc wrote:I get an SSL error trying to open the page... maybe it's already behind the paywall.

It is still visible for me without having to login. Try a different browser?

Incidentally, Luminous Landscape seems to have lost something since the move to the subscription model and there are fewer articles these days which I am interested in reading.
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Re: Easy On The Saturation Control, Buddy

Postby davidc » Tue 22 Mar 2016, 01:36

I managed to get access on my phone, albeit only once - seems like you can read something once from a device then the next attempt (even a page refresh) brings the wall crashing down!

The images looked like HDR to me. Very high selective clarity & vibrance boosts could have replicated it too but they looked HDR-ey.

To be honest it must be an artefact from living out here, they didn't look THAT bad :D

Over here, every single image you see is either vomit inducing HDR or has all the sliders maxed to the right! It's astonishing.
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Re: Easy On The Saturation Control, Buddy

Postby Mike Farley » Tue 22 Mar 2016, 06:48

davidc wrote:I managed to get access on my phone, albeit only once - seems like you can read something once from a device then the next attempt (even a page refresh) brings the wall crashing down!

The article is now paywalled and what you should see is an overlay prompting you to subscribe to read the full article. Turning the overlay off allows the images still to be visible, but the text is obscured. It does not make sense simply to respond with an error. Unless they have it in for those who live in Singapore. ;)

davidc wrote:To be honest it must be an artefact from living out here, they didn't look THAT bad :D

Over here, every single image you see is either vomit inducing HDR or has all the sliders maxed to the right! It's astonishing.

You will find everything is much duller on your return to the UK. :mrgreen:
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Re: Easy On The Saturation Control, Buddy

Postby Peter Boughton » Tue 22 Mar 2016, 23:24

It's more of a paypicketfence - you can just use incognito mode or delete your cookies...
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Re: Easy On The Saturation Control, Buddy

Postby davidc » Wed 23 Mar 2016, 01:34

Useful to know :)
Although this is the first article I've read from that site this year :P
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Re: Easy On The Saturation Control, Buddy

Postby Mike Farley » Wed 23 Mar 2016, 08:02

davidc wrote:Although this is the first article I've read from that site this year :P

Which seems to back up my view that LuLa has lost the plot since it started charging.
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Re: Easy On The Saturation Control, Buddy

Postby davidc » Mon 28 Mar 2016, 03:04

I'll confess I never really frequented the site beforehand so have very little to compare it to, what has it lost since the transition? Or maybe, what does it do that you like that may be changing
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Re: Easy On The Saturation Control, Buddy

Postby Mike Farley » Mon 28 Mar 2016, 08:35

davidc wrote:I'll confess I never really frequented the site beforehand so have very little to compare it to, what has it lost since the transition? Or maybe, what does it do that you like that may be changing

There seem to fewer opinion pieces and more video interviews which are not that interesting or insightful. I also like Michael Reichmann's views on the latest cameras as he gives a user perspective, but there has been none of those recently. In fact, he has not contributed that much recently and it seems to be mostly Kevin Raber creating the input. The last week has been particularly poor with two articles promoting their very expensive photography workshops.
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