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Skin tones - little feedback, please...
On May 23, 1:49 pm, Bob Williams wrote:
Ben Miller wrote: I took these shots yesterday for a non-profit art studio. The subjects are all autistic adults taking art lessons. At any rate, the shots are B&W, and they came off of the camera looking all blue and grey - very mushy. I tried to process with this in mind, and ended up adding a warming filter in CS2 at about 13% - 18%. Anyway, do these look usable? Not in a commercial sense, but for a benefit, blown up to around 18x24... http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/studio_bw_pics Thx, Ben They look OK, but why did you choose B/W for candid portraits? Had you taken them in color you would have had the option of editing them in color or grayscale. Bob Williams They were shot in RAW, so by default, they are in color. However, the staff wanted B&W. |
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Skin tones - little feedback, please...
Ben Miller wrote:
On May 23, 1:49 pm, Bob Williams wrote: Ben Miller wrote: I took these shots yesterday for a non-profit art studio. The subjects are all autistic adults taking art lessons. At any rate, the shots are B&W, and they came off of the camera looking all blue and grey - very mushy. I tried to process with this in mind, and ended up adding a warming filter in CS2 at about 13% - 18%. Anyway, do these look usable? Not in a commercial sense, but for a benefit, blown up to around 18x24... http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/studio_bw_pics Thx, Ben They look OK, but why did you choose B/W for candid portraits? Had you taken them in color you would have had the option of editing them in color or grayscale. Bob Williams They were shot in RAW, so by default, they are in color. However, the staff wanted B&W. If you post a RAW image to a site where we can dl it, I am sure you'll be shown different treatments from the same file. What software did you use? Another route is to add noise during the blowup, making them appear a bit artsy. Try some with contrast increased, and some with it decreased even more.... -- John McWilliams |
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Skin tones - little feedback, please...
On May 23, 3:36 pm, John McWilliams wrote:
Ben Miller wrote: On May 23, 1:49 pm, Bob Williams wrote: Ben Miller wrote: I took these shots yesterday for a non-profit art studio. The subjects are all autistic adults taking art lessons. At any rate, the shots are B&W, and they came off of the camera looking all blue and grey - very mushy. I tried to process with this in mind, and ended up adding a warming filter in CS2 at about 13% - 18%. Anyway, do these look usable? Not in a commercial sense, but for a benefit, blown up to around 18x24... http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/studio_bw_pics Thx, Ben They look OK, but why did you choose B/W for candid portraits? Had you taken them in color you would have had the option of editing them in color or grayscale. Bob Williams They were shot in RAW, so by default, they are in color. However, the staff wanted B&W. If you post a RAW image to a site where we can dl it, I am sure you'll be shown different treatments from the same file. What software did you use? RSP - CS2 - TIF - JPG for web. I think the problem is one that I seem to experience quite a bit. I think my D2x overexposes images by 1/3 to 1 stop on most, if not all images. So I shoot -1/3 to -1 almost exclusively. Sometimes images that look dark to others look normal to me. And when I punch them up a bit, I oftentimes feel as if I've brightened them too much. It helps to step away from the image for awhile and come back later...for persepctive. Anyway, once I punched up a shot of Art again, I noticed how it looks a lot better w/ more contrast. Thx for the suggestions. |
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