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Maybe this is a dumb question but when it comes to contrast and exposure… it’s entirely subjective isn’t it? I don’t know if I have a question, but I suppose I’d love to read or hear what professionals have to say about them. What goes through their mind etc.
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Megabound posted:While your final output is subjective from an editing standpoint there are benifits to shooting flat and with an exposure that captures the most information possible. If you overexpose and decide later you want to bring more information into the highlights then you're out of luck, that's clipped out of existence. Likewise if you go really punchy in the contrast and decide you want to bring in more fine tonality then that is lost too. thankfully with my modern camera, unless there is a shitload of contrast in the scene, I can capture most of it in the shot. the key is the subjective use of exposure and contrast for effect in the final image. I suppose I just wish there was a book or something I could learn from.
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Mar 6, 2022 06:47
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aight so I helped a work colleague to shoot some photos for a makeup portfolio. I am happy with the photos, but due to being taken in a botanical gardens, they've got this awful green cast which I not sure how best to deal with here is the original  and this is my attempt  I mean, I would probably be happy with this for my own purposes but seeing as it's for the purpose of displaying makeup I want it to be as close to good as I can. I've tried reducing green saturation, putting a cast over it of purple to cancel out the green, tried using calibration. they all mostly work, but idk. maybe it's just because I know the og was green that I can't not see it. maybe it's fine. anyway any advice or whatever is welcome here's a link to the dng if someone wants to have a play themselves https://mega.nz/file/nA5FxDjL#l3DIdZ0k0VsXwASLlls1RnNQf7PqrLWIOnv8Otkz7WY
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Oct 20, 2023 22:17
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bobmarleysghost posted:if you're trying to show off make up then you really shouldn't be in a colour casted shade, i'd do it in full sun - a little earlier than golden hour but not quite noon sun. or use flash tbh. yeah I'd never done this before, and only afterward was I like yeah maybe shouldn't have done it somewhere else lol. the location was requested by the MUA and they were inflexible on times... thankfully they didn't pay me anything so they can't really complain lmao quote:my edit could use more saturation maybe whatd you do?
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Oct 21, 2023 00:48
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cool thank you and yeah the grain is me. I always apply grain lol a question I need to ultimately find the answer to, is can you utterly correct for the cast, or will it always be hosed lol there were other photos that were worse than this one for the cast. ugh. oh well. live and learn. thanks pretty happy with the photo, composition wise and also that's a good looking mf
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Oct 21, 2023 02:06
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that is bogus hate the whole our way or the highway appeoaxh
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Oct 22, 2023 06:50
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A trick someone taught me and I used it here, is to crank the saturation, then play with the temperature and tint etc, it makes it much more obvious if you've still got a green cast or whatever. then pull the saturation down obviously, but maybe makes it a bit easier.
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Oct 25, 2023 02:52
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Viginti Septem posted:Color/contrast/framing/story telling in a photo, to me, is more impactful than having the "cleanest" image. this seems correct
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Nov 20, 2023 20:54
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just wanna say that I wish lightroom had a thing where you could do a couple crops and when you exported it did all of them often I crop a photo for 4:5 and then again for 16:9 and it'd be cool if I could just have both at the same time, rather than having to re-crop and go back in the history to get to the other one.
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Feb 8, 2024 12:42
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yeah. hmm when you synchronise develop settings does that mean a change to one changes all that are synced? in practice I just crop, export, re-crop, export again. and abuse the history tbh the history is fuckin great. one downside of virtual copies is that it starts with a fresh history plus if you hit backslash to bring up the og, the og is the state of the photo you virtually copied when you copied it
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Feb 8, 2024 20:43
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something I am shocking at is editing late at night and then posting something and then in the morning just being like woah that colour what was I thinking. stare at it too long and you get some kind of colour fatigue and can’t tell it’s a mess I really need to have some patience and right now just occurred to me, maybe something like a reference photo where I am totally happy with the colour balance and exposure, and keep using it as a reference
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Megabound posted:Look at it at different sizes and on different devices as well. Zoom in and out, sync it to your phone, you'll pick up colour casts way easier. nice tip thanks
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