ricardovaste wrote:
Does this effect you though,do you feel like it adds to processing time? As long as whatever you do is consistent then I think you're good. That means locking/manual exposure, good technique etc. I think if you use decent glass, light, and expose well you havea great place to work from. Doing that through a long day in multiple lighting situations can be a challenge though...
I agree with you. Looking at these help because they remind me to take my time and do it right during the shoot. When I do SOOC can be much better. Consistency as you mention is a key for me.
Here is one but I want to make a disclaimer that I don't usually process this much. I had a very specific look I was going for. First one is straight out of camera.
Would you guys mind putting a small blurb about what you did to the image you post. It doesn't have to be crazy detailed but those of us who are still learning would benefit greatly from it. Thanks so much!
In my case, I didn't even bother with the RAW file. I just took the JPEG into PS and applied a S-curve which upped the exposure and added some contrast. Then played with the levels to fine tune the contrast to my liking. The last step was color balance (Ctrl-B on PC) to fix the colors. Canon's AWB dropped the ball in this particular setting, but was much better in different scenes. I think the green threw it off completely.
maxwell1295 wrote:
In my case, I didn't even bother with the RAW file. I just took the JPEG into PS and applied a S-curve which upped the exposure and added some contrast. Then played with the levels to fine tune the contrast to my liking. The last step was color balance (Ctrl-B on PC) to fix the colors. Canon's AWB dropped the ball in this particular setting, but was much better in different scenes. I think the green threw it off completely.
Alan.. just for clarification, the upper image is the RAW file, or is that the uncorrected jpeg?
maxwell1295 wrote:
Uncorrected JPEG. I never looked at the RAW, but I'm going to in a few...
Interesting... I thought the top one was untouched RAW.. because it appears that the JPEG had a decent amount of temp. adjustment. I'm guessing that is coming from the color balance correction and it surprises me that the jpeg was shifted so much... the last time I really experimented with jpeg shooting (a few years back), that kind of movement wasn't really possible, but obviously things have changes with the flexibility of the files and the software we have now.... maybe we need to explore this further.
