My photos look polished on Lightroom but noisy online

[osumisan]

This is probably a silly question but one that plagues me nontheless when shooting portraits with black backgrounds.. Can someone explain why I can edit my portraits in Lightroom and photoshop to look the way I like, and even the histogram shows they are relatively balanced, but when I upload onto Smugmug, I can instantly see noisy spots in the background. I do understand that by using a black, fabric background (not muslin), the wrinkles pick up some of the light from my strobe.

My question is: why do these noisy spots NOT show in my editing software but do once uploaded? I would think even with an uncalibrated monitor, the images should have a consistent look. This is a problem because sometime I sent a photo to print and notice imperfections after the fact.

Photo with noisy background that looked completely dark in Lightroom and photoshop:

Thank you in advance!

 

[ronlane]

This photo is too small to see any noise in it. However, it does look to me that the skin tones are too warm IMHO. Also, the hair and the coat just fade into the backdrop leaving a head, hands and a white shirt.

 

[Braineack]

I dont see any noise, just over-saturation.

 

[gsgary]

Flag your light so no light is hitting the background or use grids you also need a hair light to seperate your subject from the background

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[weepete]

Soft proofing should give you an accurate conversion

 

[paigew]

your skin tones are way out of whack here. He looks orange. And his white shirt looks magenta.

 

[hamlet]

Perhaps you should invest in one of those colour calibration devices. Your screen might be calibrated wrong. You can purchase it here: amazon or walmart.