Pre and Post Production Pictures

[kundalini]

EDIT:

Sorry, I misunderstood the intent of this thread. :blushing:

 

[gsgary]

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After

 

[bazooka]

Can you post an example for us. Of you a picture that your having difficulty editing to give us an idea of where to start to help. Have you opened the presets on the left hand side. Like I said there are some really nice looking free presets too that can tranform a picture into a wow for ya.

It's monotone so you don't have to worry about colors. It looks fairly level, and the crop looks good. Full range of black through white. It's just incredibly noisy so you might read up on how to perform noise-reduction on B&W images. I actually think the noise kind of fits the mood of the image...

 

[KmH]

According to the EXIF data the lens was set to f/32, the ISO was 1600, and the shutter was open for 1/3 of a second. F/32, a very small lens aperture, diminishes focus sharpness because of diffraction effects.

The image would have been improved if the lens aperture was larger, say f/16, which is 2 stops wider open than f/32 is. You could then have had the same exposure by lowering the ISO 2 stops to ISO 400 for less image noise, or lowered the ISO 1 stop to ISO 800 and a 1 stop faster shutter speed of 1/6 second, a combination that also adds up to a 2 stop change in settings without changing the exposure.

Perhaps you used those settings intentionally for artistic reasons, but you might realize more significant image quality gains by gaining a better understanding of how photography works, rather than looking to image editing as a solution.

No doubt, virtually all digital images can benefit to some degree by post processing, though some image file types, like JPEG, are post processed right in the camera and are not intended to be processed any further.

 

[KmH]

I used ACR 6 (so does Lightroom 3) and CS5. The photo you posted is tiny, just over 2" x 1" and has image quality issues that limit the final quality of any editing;

 

[zeppelin390]

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It's monotone so you don't have to worry about colors. It looks fairly level, and the crop looks good. Full range of black through white. It's just incredibly noisy so you might read up on how to perform noise-reduction on B&W images. I actually think the noise kind of fits the mood of the image...[/QUOTE]
I agree, I like the noise

 

[zeppelin390]

I used ACR 6 (so does Lightroom 3) and CS5. The photo you posted is tiny, just over 2" x 1" and has image quality issues that limit the final quality of any editing;

do you think it lost some contrast with your edit?

 

[KmH]

I dodged the foreground, burned the background some, and boosted the mid-tone contrast.

 

[zeppelin390]

I very much appreciate this site, and everybody's advice on it. I love the C&C I get, and very much welcome it. But what I am asking for here is examples of people's pre and post edits. I'm not sure if this is a sensitive area in which individuals do not like to divulge how much editing they have done to their photo's, and if it is, please let me know, and I can certainly refrain from asking any further.

 

[CCericola]

When I get back to my office I'll post some before and after and the settings I used in Lightroom.

Sent from My iPad

 

[Hickeydog]