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I like the shot Martin, but it seems a bit oversaturated and overexposed to me, and the WB is a little too blue and magenta. I hope you don’t mind, I made a quick edit in Snapseed:

Kung Fu said:

mschf said:

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I like the shot Martin, but it seems a bit oversaturated and overexposed to me, and the WB is a little too blue and magenta. I hope you don’t mind, I made a quick edit in Snapseed:

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Thanks Joel, appreciate that you took a closer look! I agree, was debating on editing my post with "looks less saturated at 100%" but figured it may as well stay as-is, I don't know exactly what I've been doing lately with some of the color processing but yeah, it's off. The exposure actually seems ok, it's the processing that goofed it up, but like that you've warmed it up a bit and created some depth between mids and shadows. Once I redo the image with some patience I'll definitely keep your edit in mind.

PS I don't mind at all, I only get twitchy over cropping and cloning

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mschf said:

Kung Fu said:

mschf said:

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I like the shot Martin, but it seems a bit oversaturated and overexposed to me, and the WB is a little too blue and magenta. I hope you don’t mind, I made a quick edit in Snapseed:

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Thanks Joel, appreciate that you took a closer look! I agree, was debating on editing my post with "looks less saturated at 100%" but figured it may as well stay as-is, I don't know exactly what I've been doing lately with some of the color processing but yeah, it's off. The exposure actually seems ok, it's the processing that goofed it up, but like that you've warmed it up a bit and created some depth between mids and shadows. Once I redo the image with some patience I'll definitely keep your edit in mind.

PS I don't mind at all, I only get twitchy over cropping and cloning

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Glad you didn’t mind, I only edit photos I like; and no cloning or cropping needed. ;-)

Cheers.

my take on this would be to get in tighter on the people, reduce some of the high contrast areas along the edges of the image as they draw attention away and add a stronger yet still subtle vignette + brightening of the people to ensure they are the stars of the show and the environment adds backstory to the stars. but that's just my .02 and you can't buy a stick of gum for .02 . i like it either way.

Others habe aleady taken up your copy, on my screen itis also light, which same time means, color scale is not normal, those are things which can be fixed.

I symthatize the picture, my guess should be, you know them, the way how they sit on steps gives me idea picture is planned, I can have wrong.

Very homelike mileau, good contatct to people and moment when he sucks his cigarret. Jouni

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my take on this would be to get in tighter on the people, reduce some of the high contrast areas along the edges of the image as they draw attention away and add a stronger yet still subtle vignette + brightening of the people to ensure they are the stars of the show and the environment adds backstory to the stars. but that's just my .02 and you can't buy a stick of gum for .02 . i like it either way.

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I was actually able to work the scene here for about 20 seconds with a few takes of the couple up close as I walked out of the corridor you see behind them; after passing them, decided to turn around and capture a wider view. The posted one is the tighter of two tries, but you make a good point, I probably should have tried a third, closer snap, seeing with your example that the extra foreground and the door/mailboxes on the right don't really add anything to the scene.

Urghhh, man, I think I might've also realized why I'm juicing up colors lately: seems I'm doing that with photos taken on super-bright, hot days, and processing from a fresh memory of that instead of waiting maybe 24 hours after the shot. I immediately preferred Kung Fu's warmer tones but it only now dawned on me how much I also neon-ed the greens. I swear they were neon, really

Thanks for looking and suggesting! I'm an anti/minimal cropping person so for me the decision to keep vs bin boils down to whether the distracting parts overtake the rest of the frame. The feedback is valuable and appreciated though because it serves to remind me to put some additional thought into the moment of capture

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jouni123 said:

Others habe aleady taken up your copy, on my screen itis also light, which same time means, color scale is not normal, those are things which can be fixed.

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Thankfully, yes, and quicker than it used to be in a darkroom

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I symthatize the picture, my guess should be, you know them, the way how they sit on steps gives me idea picture is planned, I can have wrong.

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I can see how it looks a little staged, their posture is almost perfect. I don't know them, as I was walking through the corridor I heard people talking and thought I'd get ready to take a shot and see what I'd get. Two shots were taken as I passed by them, both failures for about a dozen reasons . This is the better one of the two:



When I turned around to take a shot from the front, I thought for sure they'd be watching me but they were completely disregarding me. From the tone of their voices and their expressions, I figured they were distressed over something, possibly just the woman, the man seemed to be sort of nonchalant or playing a sympathetic part.

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Very homelike mileau, good contatct to people and moment when he sucks his cigarret. Jouni

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Thanks Jouni

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if you are still having trouble with pp then maybe using a reference pic that you know is 'right' would be handy to compare against as a base

brilly said:

if you are still having trouble with pp then maybe using a reference pic that you know is 'right' would be handy to compare against as a base

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At first I blamed photoshop CC giving me different results when using the same workflow as I do with CS6, to some degree I think this was true but more of the blame might be with a changed routine: lately I've processed shots same-day whereas I'd usually sit on them for at least a few days so that, among other things, the memory of certain aspects of the moment has faded (in this case, it seems I'm trying too hard to convey bright, hot weather). I'm starting to worry how I might process foggy/overcast shots

mschf said:

brilly said:

if you are still having trouble with pp then maybe using a reference pic that you know is 'right' would be handy to compare against as a base

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At first I blamed photoshop CC giving me different results when using the same workflow as I do with CS6, to some degree I think this was true but more of the blame might be with a changed routine: lately I've processed shots same-day whereas I'd usually sit on them for at least a few days so that, among other things, the memory of certain aspects of the moment has faded (in this case, it seems I'm trying too hard to convey bright, hot weather). I'm starting to worry how I might process foggy/overcast shots

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let them happen ... dont force it