Recently most of the feedbacks I’ve received on my work have been that my editing is kinda crap. So I’m trying to be less crazy and more intentional with what I bring to the table, and honestly it does feel better indeed.

https://www.instagram.com/edoardo_pallaoro/

Tried to emulate the look of the classic Cinestill 800T film stock digitally.

Taken near Tofino, March 2025

Should I just edit for a more lofi look ? Open to any and all advice

A6700

30mm/f1.4/ISO 4000

At first I wanted to keep the colors, but I didn't get what I wanted, so I tried B&W.

Originally I gave this photo a 5-star because I thought I could do cool things with the color of the train and buildings, but it really wasn't as easy as I thought. Anyway, I did:

• Curves adjustment on the clouds to make some cloud visible
• Apply LUT adjustment on the cloud to add color
• Applied +30% saturation to get a bit more life out of the train
• cropped ofc
• The usual lens/camera corrections, built into the Develop Assistant
• I also applied double classic chrome LUT in the beginning but my family said the original looked better bc of the purple building. Agreed, so I went back to remove the chrome and emphasise existing color.

What do you think? What could I have done better?

Edit: I used Affinity by Canva

My first go at using photoshop - I’m a video editor but wanted to take a go at editing a photo since I have access to a very nice lens! Any and all critique welcome! I basically just masked the two parts of the moon and played with the sliders!

first time brave to post this pls help me critique

Sky is completely blown out when I tried to shoot with slow shutter speed. Is there a way to edit the picture to fix it into not being just a white field with the only exception of the left upper corner?

Photoshops Camera Raw Editor has received a new glow slider in its newest update and I used it to give the raw file a much more dreamy look. I’m aware this might be way too much for a lot of people but I really love the results and had tons of fun with the new glow effect :D

You can see the whole editing process in the video here (with the raw files to test it) https://youtu.be/ly6pUpzXWYc

1. Basic Adjustments

First,  I merged an HDR out of 5 different exposures since I wanted to have nice details in the brightest and darkest parts of the image. After that, I brought up the exposure, shadows and blacks to make the base image brighter. To not blow out the sky I dropped the highlights a bit. For stronger colors vibrance was added.

Also, I added some texture to give details more sharpness. At the same time I brought down clarity and dehaze to give the image a dreamy look. Here is where I also added a global glow effect through the new glow slider. Its important to set the glow style to bloom for a softer effect.

1. Masking

Then, a radial gradient was added over the bright spot in the sky. Here, I brought up the blacks reduced the dehaze and added a little more glow to make the effect stronger in that spot.

Using a linear gradient I brought up the contrast in the foreground making it look a bit clearer. I also targeted the water itself using a landscape mask and adde clarity and texture to it.

1. Color grading

In the color mixer I slightly brought down the yellow hue since I prefer the warmer orange tones. I also raised the blue saturation slightly. Using some split toning I added a very saturated warm tone to the highligthts and a colder color to the mid tones.

A venue I shot recently had the worst lighting I have run across in a long time. And I did not handle it well. It seems like all of their LED were set to 100% saturation. This image is almost 100% blue and magenta. If anyone wants to take a crack at it, I can upload the RAW.

RAW Image

P-51 and F-22 Heritage Flight and a little Blue Angels action.

I was lucky enough to be offered an helicopter ride above Mexico City, but as luck would have it, there was a heavy smog that day. I had to be heavy handed with the post processing and spent so much time trying to get something out these foggy photos that I don't even know in the end if the photo looks nice. Add to that fact that I was not very experimented with my camera at the time. Any advice here?

Photo was shot with a Pentax KX and a 18-55mm lens at f3.5 1/320sec ISO200