If she could reach me.... She would have beat me, CC please

Stevepwns · Jun 30, 2013

By the time I took this, I had taken about 40 pictures. She was tired of me....But I still like it. My girlfriend.....

Caladonia-03263 by Stevepwns, on Flickr

tirediron · Jun 30, 2013

Exposure looks good, but the there seems to be a bit of a green cast on the skin.

snowbear · Jun 30, 2013

I hope you, at least, made her dinner!

KrisztinaK · Jun 30, 2013

When I put my kids into these situations, I trade for something they want that wouldn't normally be on the agenda. Such as a trip to the zoo.

Make sure you return the favor to her as well.
It's not fun being forced to have your picture taken.

Stevepwns · Jun 30, 2013

snowbear said:
I hope you, at least, made her dinner!

KrisztinaK said:
When I put my kids into these situations, I trade for something they want that wouldn't normally be on the agenda. Such as a trip to the zoo.

Make sure you return the favor to her as well.
It's not fun being forced to have your picture taken.

Yes, I agree, I am lucky I have a great woman and she is very tolerant of me. I give her what ever she wants.... with in reason of course.

Stevepwns · Jun 30, 2013

Stevepwns said:
By the time I took this, I had taken about 40 pictures. She was tired of me....But I still like it. My girlfriend.....

Did some adjusting of the temp, and then the color itself. After you saying that, I started seeing what I thought was a yellow/ green hue. I couldn't get it look any less with out changing the whole thing. I dont think my skills are at a level that would allow me to fix it. Do you have any suggestions?

Derrel · Jun 30, 2013

This kind of slight greenish tinge is caused by the overhead canopy of trees and the green grass; there actually WAS green in the main light. I used to use an 85-series filter to correct this when shooting at a favorite location of mine, which had hundreds of bigleaf maple trees, which allow a lot of sunlight to filter through their leaves. Maple trees seem to produce this green light to a much higher and worse degree than do coniferous trees like cedar or fir.

Anyway...if you have some kind of editing software that has simple "filter effects", applying one of the several orange filters (numbered in the 80's) that would be one way to approach correcting this.

Stevepwns · Jul 1, 2013

Derrel said:
This kind of slight greenish tinge is caused by the overhead canopy of trees and the green grass; there actually WAS green in the main light. I used to use an 85-series filter to correct this when shooting at a favorite location of mine, which had hundreds of bigleaf maple trees, which allow a lot of sunlight to filter through their leaves. Maple trees seem to produce this green light to a much higher and worse degree than do coniferous trees like cedar or fir.

Anyway...if you have some kind of editing software that has simple "filter effects", applying one of the several orange filters (numbered in the 80's) that would be one way to approach correcting this.

Thank you very much, I opened the file in Light Room and put up the original next to the edited version and started messing with it focusing on Orange and Yellow, made a HUGE difference, I'll post the before and after when I am done. Again thank you very much. You hit it on the head with your advice.