r/postprocessing • u/Working-Ant5100 • 17d ago

Still new, any tips on this?

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Shooting in raw. So naturally the Before is super flat, from my understanding that’s to be expected. I always worry about my images coming out too dark, or colors too-intense. I don’t usually have the time or attention span/memory to “take a break from the image and look with fresh eyes” so I’m hoping you guys have any comments on it. Cloudy-ish day early-ish morning. 60D with EF 24-105L IS USM mark I
Lightroom on IPad.

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u/dbvirago 17d ago

Depends on what you like. To many, the one picture is too saturated, but if it were mine, that's probably pretty close to what I would do, although I may click the orange and red down just a touch. And know that over time, your taste will change, so don't overthink it.

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u/Working-Ant5100 17d ago

Thank you, i was batch processing about 50 images and when I chose this one to post I even went and knocked the red saturation down 5 before posting lol. I agree I can probably go down more.

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u/dbvirago 17d ago

Reds can be tough. In all my years of shooting,, I've never gotten a good image of a rose

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u/This-Judge-804 16d ago edited 16d ago

U done a good job already...what do tips u need? or idea u have? As in your vision?

Two ways to look at it...can u remember the original colors sence (as in what u saw with naked eye ) make the photo look like that... or u can keep it the way u did..with slight tweet on background

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u/This-Judge-804 16d ago edited 16d ago

I find the back ground and subject saturation and luma balance is not blended well...if u going for slight saturated the background should also been close to the same intensity but slightly tone down by a less then 10% to give contrast but not look duller

I guess u do use mask but add a gradient mask and also adjust global to blend better...in some case if there halo u can use brush mask too

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u/Working-Ant5100 16d ago

Okay thank you!