Random portraits thread

[Ben Magoo]

dibbly dobbler said:

^^^ Cute as hell Ben! Maybe a wee bit dull though - try whacking up the brightness ?

Yeah very proud of them

Ah ok, maybe it's time I invested some time in post production? To be honest I am very lazy and very rarely do anything at all with any of my pictures

[dibbly dobbler]

Ben Magoo said:

Yeah very proud of them

Ah ok, maybe it's time I invested some time in post production? To be honest I am very lazy and very rarely do anything at all with any of my pictures

I had a quick play with one of them and to my eye the result was worth the effort - nothing fancy, just removed the colour cast and brightened it

[paul911]

Another welcome Ben . You have gorgeous little girls.

Post your edit DD

[Ben Magoo]

dibbly dobbler said:

I had a quick play with one of them and to my eye the result was worth the effort - nothing fancy, just removed the colour cast and brightened it

paul911 said:

Another welcome Ben . You have gorgeous little girls.

Post your edit DD

Yes please do, I had a little play on PS Elemants 3.0! I've never really bothered with PP but anythings worth exploring and learning

1 - Using the 'Auto Smart Fix' button


_MG_7331_autosmartfix by Ben Magee Photography, on Flickr

2 - Removing the Colour


_MG_7331_B_and_W by Ben Magee Photography, on Flickr

3 - Things got serious adjusting the brightness and contrast


_MG_7331_brightness_plus_30_Contrast_plus_20 by Ben Magee Photography, on Flickr

4 - Then balls deep playing with the levels graph thingy! I quite like this one


_MG_7331_levels_layer by Ben Magee Photography, on Flickr

[dibbly dobbler]

My effort is *very* close to that last one Ben - great photo now! You clearly know what you are doing so no excuses for being lazy now

[Robbie B]

Yeah last one is really good Ben. They are cute!

Don't convert stuff to black and white just because the levels aren't perfect though.

Don't be that guy

[andy-xr]

Ben Magoo said:

Had a quick impromptude photo shoot with my daughters at the weekend when the wife said 'take a nice picture of the girls, I want..... - you've got until 10:45' Which gave me around 40 minutes to hang the duvet above the bed, dig out my big round reflector and try to get something with the bright morning sunlight coming through the bedroom window.

I'm not set up for portraits and normally do candids 'in the field' to be honest but overall I'm happy with the results


_MG_7331 by Ben Magee Photography, on Flickr

I think the hardest thing is getting a natural expression that comes over in the photos. Better use of time rather than pissing about too much in editing sw

Completely your call, but a very quick edit using Levels.


And another using Curves and a hue/saturation adjustment layer

[Robbie B]

Look how soft thumbsnap is compared to Flickr !

[LongQ]

Robbie B said:

Look how soft thumbsnap is compared to Flickr !

That's an interesting conclusion. Are they the same photos?

Ben - Am I right in thinking that your camera is set to shoot in the Adobe RGB colour space?

The web tends to work in sRGB and the differences can be subtely annoying if not handled by something somewhere along the processing line. Just a thought that may be worth considering.

[dibbly dobbler]

LongQ said:

Robbie B said:

Look how soft thumbsnap is compared to Flickr !

That's an interesting conclusion. Are they the same photos?

Ben - Am I right in thinking that your camera is set to shoot in the Adobe RGB colour space?

The web tends to work in sRGB and the differences can be subtely annoying if not handled by something somewhere along the processing line. Just a thought that may be worth considering.

I presume Andy's version is much lower resolution via right click + copy ?

[andy-xr]

Twas a crop of a screenshot which upscaled in PS

[Ben Magoo]

LongQ said:

Robbie B said:

Look how soft thumbsnap is compared to Flickr !

That's an interesting conclusion. Are they the same photos?

Ben - Am I right in thinking that your camera is set to shoot in the Adobe RGB colour space?

The web tends to work in sRGB and the differences can be subtely annoying if not handled by something somewhere along the processing line. Just a thought that may be worth considering.

The camera is set on Adobe RGB which I did when I first bought it way back when, probably if my current logic is similar purely because I use Adobe PS Elements when I(can be motivated to) edit my photo's

[LongQ]

Ben Magoo said:

LongQ said:

Robbie B said:

Look how soft thumbsnap is compared to Flickr !

That's an interesting conclusion. Are they the same photos?

Ben - Am I right in thinking that your camera is set to shoot in the Adobe RGB colour space?

The web tends to work in sRGB and the differences can be subtely annoying if not handled by something somewhere along the processing line. Just a thought that may be worth considering.

The camera is set on Adobe RGB which I did when I first bought it way back when, probably if my current logic is similar purely because I use Adobe PS Elements when I(can be motivated to) edit my photo's

No problem with Adobe RGB when editing with printing in mind if doing you own printing so that you are controlling what is going on. However for web display purposes and, iirc, many online print companies the loaded file is likely to be better to view if created using sRGB. (Or better still thier own proofng profiles.) Many times the differences are very small but sometimes they stand out a lot with a tendency to make the images a bit flat and lifeless and not as vivid as they might be. I'm not just talking about saturation, more a colour imbalance which, in fact, is pretty much what the effect becomes.

The whole subject is not quite a simple as that .... but it's easiest to think that it is.

[Stiglet80]

Had a play in a studio again, my son stepped in sa model and charged me £7.50 for the pleasure!


serious business by sj-stephenson, on Flickr

And when I asked him to pick a pose from the photos on the wall, he picked the one of the dog..such a diva!


Dog pose by sj-stephenson, on Flickr

[dibbly dobbler]

Stiglet80 said:

Had a play in a studio again, my son stepped in sa model and charged me £7.50 for the pleasure!


serious business by sj-stephenson, on Flickr

And when I asked him to pick a pose from the photos on the wall, he picked the one of the dog..such a diva!


Dog pose by sj-stephenson, on Flickr

Nice work Stiggy - liking these

[McMacro]

Great shots in here! Posted this in the random photo thread, probably would have been better in here. Just a random candid shot from yesterday.

[Stiglet80]

Thanks DD

And that is a lovely shot ^ like something out of a movie.

[crmcatee]

McMacro said:

Great shots in here! Posted this in the random photo thread, probably would have been better in here. Just a random candid shot from yesterday.

Lovely.

[simon_j]

B&W Look by simon-james, on 500px.com

[ian in lancs]

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