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Anonymous
sup /p/?

Tell me if you think I've gone overboard with lightroom. Just back from this shoot, done on a real budget for a family friend designer. Basically going for even lighting and sharpness with the intent of "professionally" lighting it during PP.
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>> Anonymous
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uncropped, unaltered (apart from resize) original for comparison.

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>> Anonymous
gosh is that horrible
>> Anonymous
>>263945
which one?
>> Anonymous
The color/white balance is a big improvement. However, the image is underexposed in the lower half. You might be able to bring it up a little bit with more "Fill Light" but unless you use something like Noise Ninja or it will get very grainy in those areas.
>> Anonymous
>>263946

I only see two versions of the same shot. The dark one thankfully doesn't review how crappy the pose & composition are. The corrected one has horrible skin tone. OP were you deliberately trying to make a crappy shot? I am asking serious. I've seen some really amateurish shit here but not many things as bad as this
>> Anonymous
>>263949
OP here - yes, skin tone is too orange; took like 2 minutes to do. I want ideas for PP

As for composition, that was a real problem. Room was tiny, client insisted on doing it inside her home, with her props. Had no choice but to place everything hard up against the wall, I was hard up against the opposite wall shoot with a 24-105.

Crop factor body, what
>> Anonymous
>>263949
Still OP here

Yes I am aware that the composition of the uncropped shot is abysmal, you must be a fucking idiot to think I framed like that on purpose.

Love, OP
>> Anonymous
>>263952
listen - the old adage still adage still applies - you cannot polish a turd. PP is to tweek something that is already good. It does not turn shit into something good. And you used the word "client" - are you saying you are doing this for money? Do you have any idea what other propective "clients" will say if they see stuff like this? They'll think you suck.
>> Anonymous
I have an idea. Can people be nice to each other on this board?
>> Anonymous
>>263955
jealous fag is jealous that OP photographs pretty girls

>>263956
shut the fuck up
>> Anonymous
the first pic looks decent, though as stated skin tone could be a little more natural.

also take heart, as stated this board is full of jealous cocksuckers
>> Anonymous
pretty girl?
she looks like one of those mid-westerner whose mother and father had too much DNA in common. If you think she's pretty you better give up photography because you're blind
>> Anonymous
>>263961
VIRGIN
>> Anonymous
>>263963

/b/ is that way
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>> Anonymous
ITT: trolls trolling for reactions, jearous virgins who don't find females attractive, misguided photographers coming here for "advice"

PROTIP: do not come here for advice.
>> Anonymous
>>263964
>>263961
>>263955
>>263949
I don't believe that someone incapable of seeing the merit in these shots is capable of excluding the faults from his own.

And no, she's not gorgeous, but then not many people are. Ugly people pay photographers to do portraits of them all the time.

(That's not to say that she's hideous either, but the whole "lolol she looks like a redneck hick" crap is obscenely childish and some people here need to grow out of that phase).

OP, the big problem that I see is the conflicting shadows. You want ample lighting, but not crazy shadows going in every direction. It's not a big deal, but whatever.

Also watch what you do with Photoshop. She looks unnatural, as others stated. Something closer to the original picture would not only be much more believable, but would garner a better response from the client. If she looks at the photo and she looks like an orange or something and she KNOWS her skin doesn't look like that, she'll take it as that her skin is so bad that you had to forge her entire skin tone.
>> Anonymous
>>263967

you forgot know--it-alls who think they are above it all, who can't spell
>> Anonymous
>>I don't believe that someone incapable of seeing the merit in these shots is capable of excluding the faults from his own.

I read this sentence 3 times. Can anyone tell me what it means?
>> Anonymous
>>263971
trolled.
>> Anonymous
>>263972
means double standards from all the hacks dissing op
>> Anonymous
>>263972
What I mean is that if you can't tell what's right about these photos, I don't trust that you have the skill to bring anything good to the table yourself. I have no reason to believe you're anything other than jealous of the OP if you only exhibit the ability to find faults. Any child could take wild guesses as to what's wrong with photos, it takes someone who can discern quality from stock photos to identify (correctly) what's RIGHT with the photos they see.
>> Anonymous
>>263943

This is a troll for sure.

While the OP may not have had a choice in regards to the subject, lighting, or props, he sure as fuck could have CENTERED THE FUCKING MODEL IN THE FUCKING FRAME.
>> Anonymous
OP needs to stop being a lazy fag too, take pictures out of your house. The whole picture implies that whichever lady decides to wear that thing is likely to stay sitting on the chairs at the far back of the room, with nobody taking her out to dance. Go out and shoot.