Zegnamtl
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1)
Your wife is a doll! Don't let the guys teasing you about her get to you.
most of these guys would kill to be in your shoes! ;-)
2)
The last image is better, the first batch need a tweak in levels in photoshop, most likely pulling the dark side (normally the far left, but it may be reversed) in a touch to punch the contrast up.
The pix of the woman in red shows flare causing color shift. Move the light back towards 9 o'clock, no further ( towards 12) than 9 until you master that look.
There is a red tone in the faces. Soft boxes can cause color shifts. Take a gray shirt on your wife ashoot some test with a custom color balance and see if that brings you closer to a good neutral to start with.
If that does not work for you, every shoot, start by shooting a gray card, one frame.
Use that to correct you density and color, save the correction note, make an action to batch porcess the entire shoot through the automate process in the file menu. this will take pratice, once you have it nailed, it will save you hours over the next few years and the time spent will be well worth it.
Becareful about blowing out the whites as in the last sample picture.
Again test with a gray, get the exposure perfect, then change nothing and shoot a white but stop the lens down 1/3 2/3 1 stop. Compare on the computer, not on the ditcam's screen. You be better off closing down (most like 2/3) when ever there is a item that is white such as that dress. Do the same for jet black.
Most ditcam's red tones suck! test on things other than red until youget it nailed down.
Forgive any typos, I am rushing,
Good luck.
Z
Your wife is a doll! Don't let the guys teasing you about her get to you.
most of these guys would kill to be in your shoes! ;-)
2)
The last image is better, the first batch need a tweak in levels in photoshop, most likely pulling the dark side (normally the far left, but it may be reversed) in a touch to punch the contrast up.
The pix of the woman in red shows flare causing color shift. Move the light back towards 9 o'clock, no further ( towards 12) than 9 until you master that look.
There is a red tone in the faces. Soft boxes can cause color shifts. Take a gray shirt on your wife ashoot some test with a custom color balance and see if that brings you closer to a good neutral to start with.
If that does not work for you, every shoot, start by shooting a gray card, one frame.
Use that to correct you density and color, save the correction note, make an action to batch porcess the entire shoot through the automate process in the file menu. this will take pratice, once you have it nailed, it will save you hours over the next few years and the time spent will be well worth it.
Becareful about blowing out the whites as in the last sample picture.
Again test with a gray, get the exposure perfect, then change nothing and shoot a white but stop the lens down 1/3 2/3 1 stop. Compare on the computer, not on the ditcam's screen. You be better off closing down (most like 2/3) when ever there is a item that is white such as that dress. Do the same for jet black.
Most ditcam's red tones suck! test on things other than red until youget it nailed down.
Forgive any typos, I am rushing,
Good luck.
Z
