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Help Me Understand - 2 Photos Of My Little Sister
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<blockquote data-quote="gohan2091" data-source="post: 202324" data-attributes="member: 11990"><p><a href="http://nikonites.com/member-12496-waynef.html" target="_blank"><strong>WayneF</strong></a>, The left side of her face is the only thing shown when lowering the white point to 240 but nothing is over 255, there is no clipping of the whites at all on the histogram. It may be true that I have gone overboard with the contrast on the edited image but what would cause the original to have too much contrast? Here is what I did when I took the photo. I exposed for the background, then underexposed by about a stop. I then used the umbrella flash as a fill. Did I use too much flash power? My hunch is I had the umbrella too close but I thought because I had not clipped the whites (no blinkers on DSLR review), everything would be fine.</p><p></p><p>From what I learnt in this thread, I have re-edited the photo and I believe I have improved the hightlights on the left side of the face while still keeping a good contrast (I like lots of contrast in my photos). I found the 'Lights' slider in the curves part of Adobe Lightroom to help most here. I lowered this by 75 and the harsh white on her face has been reduced greatly. </p><p></p><p>EDIT: Thanks <a href="http://nikonites.com/member-13578-wud.html" target="_blank"><strong>wud</strong></a> for your reply. Your edit is interesting. I do agree with you that a kids skin should remain soft, although I do feel her skin in your edit is overly soft on her left side and the hightlights there don't contain much detail.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gohan2091, post: 202324, member: 11990"] [URL="http://nikonites.com/member-12496-waynef.html"][B]WayneF[/B][/URL], The left side of her face is the only thing shown when lowering the white point to 240 but nothing is over 255, there is no clipping of the whites at all on the histogram. It may be true that I have gone overboard with the contrast on the edited image but what would cause the original to have too much contrast? Here is what I did when I took the photo. I exposed for the background, then underexposed by about a stop. I then used the umbrella flash as a fill. Did I use too much flash power? My hunch is I had the umbrella too close but I thought because I had not clipped the whites (no blinkers on DSLR review), everything would be fine. From what I learnt in this thread, I have re-edited the photo and I believe I have improved the hightlights on the left side of the face while still keeping a good contrast (I like lots of contrast in my photos). I found the 'Lights' slider in the curves part of Adobe Lightroom to help most here. I lowered this by 75 and the harsh white on her face has been reduced greatly. EDIT: Thanks [URL="http://nikonites.com/member-13578-wud.html"][B]wud[/B][/URL] for your reply. Your edit is interesting. I do agree with you that a kids skin should remain soft, although I do feel her skin in your edit is overly soft on her left side and the hightlights there don't contain much detail. [/QUOTE]
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