Processing...too much?

[linpelk]

Yeah, it was the post processing that caused the crossover. Those girls are adorable.

Thanks for the compliments on my girls! Would you mind explaining "crossover" and how to avoid it in post processing (if it's not too hard to explain...if so, no big deal I will just adjust my levels and see what I figure out). I googled it, but I couldn't find anything. Thanks so much.

 

[CSR Studio]

Crossover is something that would happen with film for various reasons.
This is what it is:

When you have a photograph and you color correct you use a color wheel to adjust those colors. Add yellow to take away blue, add red to take away cyan add magenta to take away green. This works because these colors are opposite on the color wheel.

Crossover is when you have too much of one color in your photograph but you also have that colors opposite in your photograph.

In other words you have a photograph with too much cyan and too much red. You can't add cyan to take away the red and you can't add red to take away the cyan. That is crossover.

 

[linpelk]

Crossover is something that would happen with film for various reasons.
This is what it is:

When you have a photograph and you color correct you use a color wheel to adjust those colors. Add yellow to take away blue, add red to take away cyan add magenta to take away green. This works because these colors are opposite on the color wheel.

Crossover is when you have too much of one color in your photograph but you also have that colors opposite in your photograph.

In other words you have a photograph with too much cyan and too much red. You can't add cyan to take away the red and you can't add red to take away the cyan. That is crossover.

Thanks...that makes sense and thanks for posting the color wheel. I wouldn't have "got" it without the visual.

 

[five pennies]

I like the PP. I love number 2 then number 3. She has beautiful eyes

 

[musicaleCA]

The PP works. You turned flat, "meh" images into something worth while by pulling the good lighting out of it. But as others have noted, skin tones are off. Have you created a calibrated camera profile for your camera? Nabbing a colour card, shooting it, and putting it through Adobe's DNG Profiler is totally worth it; I'm finally getting correct skin tones in my own images after calibrating.

 

[nemophotos]

I LOVE IT - that's the type of photography I want to do. Do you mind my asking what you did in PP?

 

[Lightspeedfoto]

# 2 is the winner! awesome pic! So cute!