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Some of my first photos with A6300

Started May 17, 2019 | Discussions thread
PHXAZCRAIG
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Re: Some of my first photos with A6300

Hector1959 wrote:

6. black point pulled down very carefully until histogram just kisses the left side. I use this as a dehaze technique, but it have to balance this with exposure and contrast adjustments.

I practically do not use Blacks or white points. Just in some cases of "try and see"

I used to use a lot of Clarity and Vibrance.   Clarity started making it too difficult to tame some of the bright hotspots and led to a look akin to oversharpening.   Vibrance - the more I used it, the more I thought it was wrong for underwater.  I typically prefer to use it when there are skin tones involved.  Now I almost never use it for underwater shots in favor of saturation.

White point: Almost never use it, except for times when I have really bright, tough white hot spots.  White Christmas Tree worms, Sea Rod closeups, etc.

Black point: Try it sometime and see what happens to the turbidity of the water.  You have to be very careful with it as a point too low blocks up a bunch of shadows.

Contrast:  I've been gradually finding myself using more contrast, but at the same time I back off other sliders, like Clarity.  I often push it up to around 50 to see how things look, play with some settings, then back off Contrast until things 'look good'.

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