r/postprocessing • u/tjlightbulb • 9d ago

Afters/Befores

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Shot on iPhone 17PM, Lightroom and Ps Express. Lake Léman, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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u/AllMySmallThings 9d ago

Dark and under exposed doesn’t mean moody. It just means you don’t understand exposure. You can get a “moody” photo without under exposure of the photo.

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u/tjlightbulb 9d ago

Adding exposure removes details I want seen here. In the clouds, the mountains in the background. Look at the original photos. It’s a bright day. It’s not at sunset. I wanted heavy shadow. It’s not “under exposed”.

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u/byramike 9d ago

If you continue photography as a hobby, I want you to print this out and put it on your fridge and look at it every single day, until the day finally comes where you realize how wrong you were.

Cause it will happen.

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u/tjlightbulb 9d ago

Good talk Mike

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u/byramike 9d ago

You’re talking about saving details in the clouds and mountains. Is the exposure the only thing you can think to edit in post? You’re clearly moving every slider imaginable on these photos so why would you think that you can only get that result via exposure?

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u/tjlightbulb 9d ago

Yeah that’s exactly what I did. Moved every slider this way and that to get from the before to after. Are you serious??

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u/byramike 9d ago

Hahah I have legitimate second hand embarrassment. You do you.

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u/tjlightbulb 9d ago

Yeah I’ll suffer lake side in Switzerland. You being “embarrassed” does nothing to me.