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Renaissance Faire

Started Oct 18, 2013 | Photos thread
s_grins
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Re: Renaissance Faire

micksh6 wrote:

s_grins wrote:

Thanks for sharing!

Did you try your photos 1/3 - 2/3 steps darker in PP? They're not overexposed, but a little bright to my eyes, especially first one

Yes, I sometimes hear that my photos are too bright, but somehow darker photos dind't look right to me.
Probably the reason is that scene contrast was high, I raised shadows and reduced whites so that even darkest face areas are visible? Otherwise shadow parts would be almost black, which I dislike.

Here is histogram of original photo, face brightness tops at 90%, white clothes at 95%.

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And here I reduced exposure by 1/3 stop and darkened shadows and reduced contrast slightly. Do you think this one looks better?

#1, version 2

Thank you all, especially for captions!

Yes, for my eyes version 2 looks perfect.

Thanks again for posting.

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