http://www.moderncolorworkflow.com/blog/the-mit-5k-dataset-3-effective-averaging-close-up Latest color correction book by Dan Margulis Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:32:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.35 http://www.moderncolorworkflow.com/blog/the-mit-5k-dataset-3-effective-averaging-close-up#comment-64467 Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:24:04 +0000 http://www.moderncolorworkflow.com/?p=1111#comment-64467 Kirk, This is a good use of blending. Before PPW it wasn’t unheard of for people to force too much color into an image but it wasn’t that common either. With PPW it happens all the time. So, it is nice to have the blending option available to move toward a more conservative look if desired.

]]> http://www.moderncolorworkflow.com/blog/the-mit-5k-dataset-3-effective-averaging-close-up#comment-64452 Sun, 19 Nov 2017 08:04:52 +0000 http://www.moderncolorworkflow.com/?p=1111#comment-64452 Thanks for this extremely interesting blog. You have convinced me of the value of blending. Although the images are small jpgs I downloaded them and then did my own version, this exercise afforded me an opportunity to a) compare my work with other people’s and b) an opportunity to compare my work to the Master himself. So how did I fare, using PPW I did better than any of the 5 and even the par image. I did not achieve the same colors as Dan did, but then I thought his were a bit over the top especially red and green. My sky was better than any other image and I would say I had more detail in the rocks than even Dan.
Obviously a blend came to mind and I blended my image with Dan’s at equal rates, this gave me the best result where I found the background rocks had a red color but were not seemingly on steriods. Thanks again Kirk

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