Photography Post-Processing: Questions and How-Tos (HDR :getin:)

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bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

ferdinand posted:

I work at a high-end retouching house

What kind of education/experience are retouching houses looking for typically? If you dont mind telling of course.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2009 01:03

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 09:28

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

Sounds good to me, I'm down.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2009 23:07

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

A5H posted:

Does anyone know if there's any lightroom plug-ins to mimic an effect like this at all?

Aside from decreasing the contrast a little and cross processing it a little, you can't mimic this unless you recreate the light:

-Sun in front of camera (but not in frame)
-Exposing for the shadow side of the car/object

This way your background will look a little cloudy as you see in this shot.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2010 07:06

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

Or just go black and white!

# ¿ Dec 16, 2011 20:00

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

I run LR4 and it functions pretty well for what hardware I run (core2duo, 2GB ram :saddowns:

). If I click export and browse around, it's not slow at all. Like evil_bunnY said, something has to be up.

# ¿ Jun 13, 2012 00:22

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

Yes.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2012 04:25

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

Coughing-up Tweed posted:

who knows what this will do to all of their plugins?

I do: you will need an internet connection when you edit photos in the cloud, integrated with all of google's webapps. THE CLOUD, MAN!

# ¿ Sep 18, 2012 04:56

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

Yea, PS has had that feature for a few versions.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2013 22:36

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

Paragon8 posted:

I like the VSCO iphone app a lot.

I think VSCO is pretty cool but a lot of people have it and it is a bit faddish. Because it's applied at the lightroom/bridge stage it's hard to have as good control over it as if it was a filter in photoshop. You can't just be like "oh drop the opacity down a few notches" type thing.

Almost all presets sort of fall into that, I'd spend money on plug-in packages that use filters like Alienskin or ColorEFX. It just lets you do a bit more.

I just tried VSCO out, and on my test shots, I liked maybe 1 preset out of the lot. Although, I've seen some great shots with VSCO on top, so maybe my test shots are poo poo. I agree that I wish I had more fine grained control. And guess what - all VSCO presets are text files that you can edit if you know what the numbers mean.

example (a snippet of the xml):

code:

s = {
	id = "5093456F-B724-4327-A49F-44D6E4B3DD30",
	internalName = "C - Fuji 400H -",
	title = "C - Fuji 400H -",
	type = "Develop",
	value = {
		settings = {
			Blacks2012 = 25,
			BlueHue = 0,
			BlueSaturation = 0,
			CameraProfile = "Fuji 400H v2C",
			Clarity2012 = 0,
			Contrast2012 = 0,
			ConvertToGrayscale = false,
			EnableCalibration = true,
...
...
...

# ¿ Jan 10, 2013 05:58

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

A few comparisons:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/photoshop/f/elementscompare.htm
http://www.adobe.com/ca/products/photoshopfamily/buying-guide-version-comparison.html

But in general, I would avoid serious editing on a tablet.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2013 18:15

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

The thing is, a whale is gray when viewed out of water. A whale in water would be blue, just like the first photo. The 1st photo is the more true colour one.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2013 01:03

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

I remember taking this test a year or so ago, and got 1 or 2. I took it again just now - 10. My eyes are getting worse I guess :shrug:

# ¿ Feb 15, 2013 18:16

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

raggedphoto posted:

As terrible as that image is it probably took over a hundred layers of lens flare, illustrations and adjustment layers to achieve the final look. If you step into this project thinking that its just some quick textures and glow you'll find yourself very frustrated. There is a ton of masking and transforming involved just for the glow aspects, prepare for a lot of hours if you want something as polished as that image.

Yea I agree. There are a lot of tutorials out there that deal with each specific effect. It will be up to you to blend them all together. Practice is all it takes.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2013 03:12

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

PS is just so much easier for fine tuning images. I find lightroom very blunt in comparison.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2015 00:29

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

A Saucy Bratwurst posted:

I like to see them full size to judge whether or not I hit focus.

Adobe's Bridge does it well enough for me.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2015 16:17

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

Stop taking jpegs, that will cut your workflow in half. Deal with the RAWs and flag-delete whatever you don't like.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2015 17:35

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

Dial down the HDR look and you're golden.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2015 17:48

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

EL BROMANCE posted:

Ha, I think having a bad portfolio is one of the prerequisites of having a successful YT channel. I guess those who are truly great have no time nor care for such things,

Really? You think they don't have a good portfolio because they don't have time to make one, since they're so busy giving out criticism and making youtube videos?

They have a bad portfolio because they're bad at making photos, so they decided to make youtube videos instead, criticizing others.

bobmarleysghost fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Dec 11, 2015

# ¿ Dec 11, 2015 18:52

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

Ah, that makes more sense.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2015 19:14

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

Download the Nik editing suite. It's free now.

It works standalone or within PS etc

# ¿ Mar 31, 2016 19:10

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

Why do you want 2000+ photos?
Did you really look at every single one and thought "This is a keeper." ?

I'm willing to bet if you pick 10 of those 2000 you'd get more than a better idea of the trip.

bobmarleysghost fucked around with this message at 23:59 on May 10, 2016

# ¿ May 10, 2016 23:56

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 09:28

bobmarleysghost: Mar 7, 2006

Try before you buy.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2017 03:22

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