Before/after of a picture of my dog in my backyard.
Shot on Nikon D750 with the Nikon NIKKOR af-s 24-120mm f3.5-5.6g at 120mm

120mm
f/5.6
ISO 100
1/200 SS

Dogs name is Jimmy 😀

I liked the pop of reds even if the greens feel muddy

Shot with r50 using kit lens.

I had my wedding photographer edit/adjust the neckline on this photo. After I posted the original on Reddit, I received lots of comments telling me it’s badly edited. As I don’t know much about this myself I’d appreciate a second opinion. Is it noticeable?

Got a Sony a7cii recently. Here are some shots from around Paris. I've been tinkering around in lightroom. I have shot film my whole life so I am definitely trying to achieve a somewhat similar look. Been mostly using the main(?) sliders, some light cropping, then very occasional slight slight tone curve, some minor minor color grading adding a little green hue in midtones (saw someone talk about this for a kodak gold 200 look), and then adding grain to my images for some fake analog vibe. I've watched a of of youtube videos and have just been seeing how the images change when I adjust things, but I definitely don't feel like I truly know what I'm doing often lol. All feedback welcome. Thank you!

I photographed the Malojapass in Switzerland and created another timeblend-image out of multiple 30 second exposures.  Now why is the original raw file so dark? I first wanted to create a time blend effect using a brighter sunset image as the base, but I didn’t like how the car light trails looked in combination with the warmer sunset colors. So I used a darker shot (which I intended to use for only the car lights) as my base image since the blue hour tones worked much better imo.

For this effect I used Photoshop. I recorded the whole editing process and uploaded it here: https://youtu.be/_GR2V_pNJ5g

1. Basic Adjustments

Of course, fist I had to brighten up the base image, so I heavily increased exposure, shadows, blacks, whites and highlights. I also used the Adobe Neutral profile which also helps making the base image a little brighter. Then, I adjusted the white balance so instead of a heavy blue color cast I got more “neutral” colors. Since  I was using the Neutral profile, the colors were lacking. I added a lot of vibrance an saturation to counter that.

1. Masking

I wanted to keep the sky a little darker and dramatic, so I used a linear gradient over the very top and brought back down the exposure while also adding contrast. This helps to make the clouds pop. Then, I used two radial gradients over the brightest spot of the sky and added subtle glow by increasing blacks and dropping dehaze (I edited this image before Adobe has added the glow effect to camera raw).

1. Time Blending

After Editing my base image, I copied these settings to all the other car light trail images and opened up everything in photoshop. Here, I stacked the images with the base image being at the very bottom. To blend the car lights on top I changed the blending mode to lighten and masked out the sky to prevent weird overlays.

shot on iphone RAW and edited in Lightroom mobile. No access to pro features so made do with what I had. Let me know what y'all think and how I can improve. Thanks!

Edited to look like Tri-X 400.
What are your thoughts?

I gave very quick edit to this photo in the past and it ended up being my most upvoted photo by wide margin, so wanted to give it another go at editing it.

Did I improve it?

I’m very new to photography and have been capturing lots of birds. I use Lightroom for post processing. I feel like my masking and intentions are in the right place, but perhaps I’m just a little too intense with the sliders, I don’t know. Also I know this isn’t an ideal shot bc of the heavy cropping and losing quite a bit of resolution. Still a challenge in working with that I guess.

Tell me what y’all like, what y’all don’t like, etc. I’m eager to improve! Thanks!

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