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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 224326" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>That's because it's really <em>not</em> a crappy shot. It's actually has more than decent composition and is rather nice with just some lighting issues that can be easily corrected. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's <em>Jake</em>, btw. Honest mistake, but I have this thing about being called "Jack" - long story requiring a beer and a lot of background history. Honest mistake. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Realize that I was working with a low resolution jpeg when I edited and not the original RAW file. I also did the minimum amount of editing possible to show you what I meant and without knowing what it's possible to do with your software. Brightening that image will definitely add noise, but it can easily be reduced in a RAW image, and even with the jpeg I have software that would have allowed me to do these adjustments while better preserving the background, but I wanted to keep it simple and use global adjustments. I could have done most of what needed to be done with just the dodge tool and then some contrast adjustments, but having no idea what you have available in ACDSee my intent was to show you what might have been doable with what you have and not to show what you can do in Photoshop.</p><p></p><p>The new image does not suffer from what I see as correctable in the first. Most of the problems were in the flower and not with the background, with the whites/pinks not popping as they should. The new image does not suffer from this at all.</p><p></p><p>Monitor calibration is a tricky thing, and it the bane of all photographers who strive to get things to look right. Most monitors tend to be too hot and cool by default, and even when tweaked by their owners. It's just what the eye expects to see. My brother has a Spyder calibration system and he's done mine, and will then also profile them to match my printer. But I fully expect that what I see will not be what others see, and I confirm that every time I look at something on someone else's monitor. Believe it or not, the first thing I'll check after I put something online is how the colors look when I pull it up on my iPhone. If it looks right there then I'm content to know that it should look OK to most everyone else - or at least most everyone else who cares about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 224326, member: 9240"] That's because it's really [I]not[/I] a crappy shot. It's actually has more than decent composition and is rather nice with just some lighting issues that can be easily corrected. It's [I]Jake[/I], btw. Honest mistake, but I have this thing about being called "Jack" - long story requiring a beer and a lot of background history. Honest mistake. ;) Realize that I was working with a low resolution jpeg when I edited and not the original RAW file. I also did the minimum amount of editing possible to show you what I meant and without knowing what it's possible to do with your software. Brightening that image will definitely add noise, but it can easily be reduced in a RAW image, and even with the jpeg I have software that would have allowed me to do these adjustments while better preserving the background, but I wanted to keep it simple and use global adjustments. I could have done most of what needed to be done with just the dodge tool and then some contrast adjustments, but having no idea what you have available in ACDSee my intent was to show you what might have been doable with what you have and not to show what you can do in Photoshop. The new image does not suffer from what I see as correctable in the first. Most of the problems were in the flower and not with the background, with the whites/pinks not popping as they should. The new image does not suffer from this at all. Monitor calibration is a tricky thing, and it the bane of all photographers who strive to get things to look right. Most monitors tend to be too hot and cool by default, and even when tweaked by their owners. It's just what the eye expects to see. My brother has a Spyder calibration system and he's done mine, and will then also profile them to match my printer. But I fully expect that what I see will not be what others see, and I confirm that every time I look at something on someone else's monitor. Believe it or not, the first thing I'll check after I put something online is how the colors look when I pull it up on my iPhone. If it looks right there then I'm content to know that it should look OK to most everyone else - or at least most everyone else who cares about it. [/QUOTE]
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