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justanikongirl wrote:
Great advice bu82. I did shoot RAW which was just as well as the images came out a bit orange. I'm on a mission to get better photos in the first place to reduce the amount of post processing I need to do after! What's your workflow and what focus settings do you use?
My workflow is pretty simple really. I just do white balance correction, have some presets with vibrance, saturation, contrast, etc., and that's really about it. I do minor NR in Camera RAW and then only output to Photoshop for resizing and sharpening. So even though I shoot RAW, it's a very minimal and fast workflow. I don't even use Lightroom - just Adobe Bridge with Camera RAW - faster for me. The idea really is to get it right in camera - RAW or not. It sounds cliche, but it's true. Backgrounds, compositions, exposure, etc. Then your images will look better period, and your post processing will be very fast.
Regarding shutter speed, there is no rule like 1/1000 as I've seen others post. Depends on many things. I suggest in my prior reply 1/800, f/2.8, ISO 8000. But I do agree, as I said it as well before, I rather have a bit of noise than NR and loss of detail and bad looking skin tones. And if that means 1/1000 or 1/1500 or 1/800 for a given situation, then don't worry about the noise.
As far as focus, I shoot Canon 1DXMKII, and use the group AF with 4 points. Similar to Nikon's (I think) Dynamic with the fewest surround/helper points. Sometimes, I will use single point too. Again, depends. I also turn of any image stabilization (IS, VR) on the lenses.
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