Posted by Peptic Ulcer I appreciate the feedback! Keep it coming! As usual Blackhawk has amazing insight on this subject. His comment about subject matter out in West Texas is spot on. Subject matter here can be difficult. |
#1 I processed in color but the texture was lost and honestly other than the sharp blue sky was completely washed out. The lens I used is a Nikor 24-70 f3.5 (a compromise with Mrs. Ulcer over the $2000 14-24mm). The slow f stop causes a ton of shots to be overexposed. Every shot I pull into Photoshop and process in the RAW setting 1st using AUTO correct and make corrections from there. EVERY shot increases the exposure on shots that are already overexposed. I can say that I darkened the shit out of that shot! This also brings up another issue that I posed in an earlier post that Tiffers started (cant remember the thread). The photos posted here look completely different than on Flickr (due to compression). They also look different on my ipad than my laptop. Im really struggling figuring out how to make corrections on my laptop that will look good on a "real" monitor. Coupled with the differences in not only other people's monitors but their settings as well and the same image will seemingly NEVER look the same to any 2 independent viewers. |
#2 is more or less Meh. I still havent figured out cropping and rotating in photoshop. I knew when I shot this that: 1.) The building itself isnt that interesting from an architectural standpoint 2.) There was WAY too much of the road shown 3.) The perspective was strange. I was really focused on trying to get the shot centered as best I could and from that standpoint I think I pulled it off. I also thought it important to provide some context as to what I was shooting inside. The other thing that attracted me to this particular shot was the contrast between the shocking blue of the West Texas sky and the dull color of the sand and the building itself. |
#3 on the contrast goes to the same problem as I mentioned on #1. I tried 4 different contrast adjustments and this was the best compromise. The sun hitting on the left is the brightest spot on the shot. This caused the exposure to lessen everywhere else including the interior. I adjusted the "clarity" section, exposure, the black and the white settings. Trying to darken the bright and lighten the dark was a real struggle! The color saturation that Blackhawk mentioned is interesting. When I first started processing RAW I REALLY ramped up the saturation and liked the contrast. Looking back now it was WAY too much. I now increase it between 5-7%. Beyond that it seems to skew the color and take away the realism of the shot. |
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