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Everyone looks like they have the flu
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1st AD posted:I did some slight desaturation in the red and green channels, I also desaturated the background since the color wasn't consistent from shot to shot. it looks bad.
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Apr 7, 2015 04:21
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1st AD posted:This owns, love it. Thanks! 1st AD posted:I did some slight desaturation in the red and green channels, I also desaturated the background since the color wasn't consistent from shot to shot. It looks almost like only the midtones are desaturated, and quite so. Before you mentioned desaturation I thought you'd maybe just flattened out the middle of your curves. Either way it doesn't look very good.
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Apr 7, 2015 06:00
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1st AD posted:This owns, love it. In badly colored light, sometimes you just gotta convert to B&W rather than trying fancy curves. Maybe try some LEDs if you are gonna experiment with stills and continuous light. I have some YN300 lights cost me like $60 (sans battery) on Amazon and they work pretty well.
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Apr 7, 2015 06:28
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I don't do portraits really, but I had a chance this weekend, so I brought the Posing App with me and dicked around with my reflector a bit. DSC_8034 by khyrre, on Flickr DSC_8118 by khyrre, on Flickr DSC_8142 by khyrre, on Flickr
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Apr 7, 2015 08:03
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I reset all the HSL and other saturation adjustments for a comparison: DSC_9564 alt by chazaraz, on Flickr DSC_9578 alt by chazaraz, on Flickr DSC_9549 alt by chazaraz, on Flickr
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Apr 7, 2015 08:50
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I think you might want to calibrate your monitor because the skin colours look really off.
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Apr 7, 2015 09:56
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They've got a HDR'd look to them for some reason, like the dynamic range has been crunched or something.
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Apr 7, 2015 10:39
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They just look like they have mould growing on their faces.
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Apr 7, 2015 11:45
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Seriously. Also they look over sharpened as hell, and some highlights may be blown?
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Apr 7, 2015 12:53
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How far to the right did you drag the clarity slider?
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Apr 7, 2015 14:59
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Spedman posted:They've got a HDR'd look to them for some reason, like the dynamic range has been crunched or something. Yeah, I'm also getting a weird HDR vibe from them.
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Apr 7, 2015 15:28
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It's the body worlds men with the skin still intact.
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Apr 7, 2015 15:47
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Throwing my hat in the HDR camp. Also the too-much-sharpening camp.
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Apr 7, 2015 16:28
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They look like they crawled out of a sewer.
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Apr 7, 2015 16:43
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Keep in mind the pictures are fine, it's the processing that looks like slug-trails that is distracting.
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Apr 7, 2015 17:19
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You oversaturated the skintones while at the same time desaturating the shadows, that's the problem. They also have highlights on their skin indicating sweat/oily skin. This would be fine for a shot of a boxer or athlete, but normal guys just end up looking goony. You'll have to fix that manually with light dodging/burning
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Apr 7, 2015 17:43
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I have some friends who want to start fashion blogs. I know that fashion blogs are fuckin' dime-a-dozen these days and cheesy as all hell for the most part but I think it would still be a fun and good opportunity for me to try something new in terms of photos. Anyone have any examples of fashion photography done well and things I could read up on/look at to get started? Portraits really aren't something I've dabbled in much.
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Apr 9, 2015 08:22
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There's no one way fashion photography should look. Steep yourself in the history (read up on some of the bigger names like Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, pick up one of those Vogue photo catalogs that haunts every thrift store, etc). It really helps to know what's been done, but it's more about figuring out what in photography (or whatever else) motivates you.
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Apr 9, 2015 11:59
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Geektox posted:I have some friends who want to start fashion blogs. I know that fashion blogs are fuckin' dime-a-dozen these days and cheesy as all hell for the most part but I think it would still be a fun and good opportunity for me to try something new in terms of photos. Anyone have any examples of fashion photography done well and things I could read up on/look at to get started? Portraits really aren't something I've dabbled in much. This is a good site for inspiration and different photography styles. http://www.fashioneditorials.com/
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Apr 9, 2015 15:23
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Here's a first set of some portraits I took of some friends last weekend. I was experimenting taking portraits with a wide open aperture, which is something I've never done.       The biggest problems I had were technical: two of the strobes were randomly firing for no reason (radio interference? I should have changed channels in retrospect) and for about half the shots the seamless strobe wasn't firing. The results are some inconsistent lighting, but I'm satisfied with the results overall. The first shot was actually a shot during setup and is my favorite, despite the hosed up collar. I learned a lot, especially with regards to posing while shooting at 35mm(crop sensor)@/F2. Fart Car '97 fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Apr 9, 2015 15:38
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 Tadesse by Isaac Sachs, on Flickr Tade was our fantastic driver (and often guide) for our trip through northern Ethiopia.
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Apr 9, 2015 15:41
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Fart Car '97 posted:Here's a first set of some portraits I took of some friends last weekend. I was experimenting taking portraits with a wide open aperture, which is something I've never done. I dig them.
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Apr 9, 2015 15:51
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I ditched the custom curve and went back to something closer to the original instead of flattening out the image. Thoughts? It's obviously not done yet, but given how unhelpful about 90% of the responses were I don't want to spend time on something obviously lovely. DSC_9549 by chazaraz, on FlickrThere is like a green tint in the shadows that I'm guessing is a result of the CFL lighting, is there an easy way to touch this up in Lightroom? In Resolve I am able to just isolate green within a certain luminance range and then desaturate it or push it towards a different color - is there a way to do this in LR? 1st AD fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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Apr 10, 2015 01:42
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I don't have LR in front of me, but couldn't you do that using the hue modifications (near hue/saturation/lightness) ? That one already looks miles better - the weird grey muddiness near his nose is gone.
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Apr 10, 2015 01:49
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What is going in in the middle of his face where it transitions from light half to dark half? The strange grayish patches, they look like the curve is turning back on itself. They are in the hair also. Are you using the clarity or fill slider at all? Or some kind of skin smoothing/sharpening? Also the eyes seem a bit too vibrant to be natural.
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Apr 10, 2015 02:34
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No smoothing/sharpening, and no clarity or fill. edit:  I had some masks that I forgot to reset from my first version. DSC_9549 by chazaraz, on Flickr
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Apr 10, 2015 02:40
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That looks a lot less zombiefied than your first attempts
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Apr 10, 2015 10:57
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Fart Car '97 posted:Here's a first set of some portraits I took of some friends last weekend. I was experimenting taking portraits with a wide open aperture, which is something I've never done. Wow, just how close did you have to get to them for this?
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Apr 10, 2015 14:17
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psylent posted:Wow, just how close did you have to get to them for this? 2 feet-ish? It was a 50mm equivalent lens. There is very little cropping. In most I myself was either fully under, or my lens was sticking under, the soft box.
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Apr 10, 2015 15:32
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Here's a bunch more of my "Just Finished" runner photos. It was a pretty drat hot and humid day which resulted in some extra sweaty people. The older dude here is 91!    
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Apr 10, 2015 15:37
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1st AD posted:No smoothing/sharpening, and no clarity or fill. still some green in the mids, you can see it in his neckbeard, around his eye sockets, and in the shadow gradient on his forehead might be better if you desaturate green a bit
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Apr 10, 2015 18:11
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The problem with desaturating a color is that it ends up grey, which is how he got to the zombie look in the first place. He needs to adjust the hue of green to something more skin toned.
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Apr 11, 2015 03:38
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Jesus. What do they look like SOOC?
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Apr 11, 2015 03:48
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dakana posted:Jesus. What do they look like SOOC? I was kind of hoping for the raw file so we can all play.
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Apr 11, 2015 03:55
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some random stuff from the last couple of days each one has its own unique failings as a photograph  IMG_4272.jpg IMG_4367.jpg IMG_4781.jpg by kidkissinger, on Flickr
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Apr 12, 2015 23:20
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Apr 12, 2015 23:47
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Apr 13, 2015 01:06
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 Scout by Isaac Sachs, on Flickr  Zumra Nuru by Isaac Sachs, on Flickr
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