ac12
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There are times and places where you have no choice.
A tour will not stop and wait and hour for you to get YOUR shot. You have to shoot and keep moving.
You cannot always move to eliminate a distracting background or foreground item.
In those cases, post processing may have to be done.
Unlike a painter, a photographer cannot "not record" what you don't want in the image.
As they say, when you take the picture, "you get it, warts and all." You have to get rid of the warts in post processing.
In the film days, we did not have HDR.
For landscape, I had to extend the DR of the image in the darkroom, lightening the shadows and toning down the highlights.
In the studio, you as the photographer can adjust the lighting so that the camera records what you want. You need to lighten the shadow, just add more light.
When you have difficult lighting, you have to correct in post.
You can correct for general white balance, but not specific local white balance.
Example at my school theater, the stage is lighted by different color lights, so as you move to different parts of the stage the color of the lighting changes. R+G+B=white, but only when R, G and B are even. If you have more R, the color is different than when you have more B. And sometimes you can't do anything about it, one picture with one performer with WHITE light, one with cyan lighting, and another with magenta lighting.
I eventually gave up on local color correction on the stage.
Similar when you get color reflection off of nearby surfaces, floor, walls and furniture.
Having said all that.
The more you can get it CORRECT in the camera, the less work you have to do on the computer.
A tour will not stop and wait and hour for you to get YOUR shot. You have to shoot and keep moving.
You cannot always move to eliminate a distracting background or foreground item.
In those cases, post processing may have to be done.
Unlike a painter, a photographer cannot "not record" what you don't want in the image.
As they say, when you take the picture, "you get it, warts and all." You have to get rid of the warts in post processing.
In the film days, we did not have HDR.
For landscape, I had to extend the DR of the image in the darkroom, lightening the shadows and toning down the highlights.
In the studio, you as the photographer can adjust the lighting so that the camera records what you want. You need to lighten the shadow, just add more light.
When you have difficult lighting, you have to correct in post.
You can correct for general white balance, but not specific local white balance.
Example at my school theater, the stage is lighted by different color lights, so as you move to different parts of the stage the color of the lighting changes. R+G+B=white, but only when R, G and B are even. If you have more R, the color is different than when you have more B. And sometimes you can't do anything about it, one picture with one performer with WHITE light, one with cyan lighting, and another with magenta lighting.
I eventually gave up on local color correction on the stage.Similar when you get color reflection off of nearby surfaces, floor, walls and furniture.
Having said all that.
The more you can get it CORRECT in the camera, the less work you have to do on the computer.
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