First AEB Raw photo edit

[Amckim2084]

I'm sure I butchered it in a photographers eyes but hey, I like it. Taken in AEB mode in Raw. Merged in Photoshop then just played around with the adjustments. First is the digital negative, (which I had to convert to JPEG in order to upload here). Second is the edit of course.

 

[E90RAW]

I'm sure I butchered it in a photographers eyes but hey, I like it. Taken in AEB mode in Raw. Merged in Photoshop then just played around with the adjustments. First is the digital negative, (which I had to convert to JPEG in order to upload here). Second is the edit of course.



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Its great. Good job!

 

[Amckim2084]

Its great. Good job!

Thanks man!

 

[OurAngryBadger]

Good work,, and great start. The exposure and dynamic range is well done.

If you would mind, a gentle critique, only to help you improve.

The overall color/white balance is too far on the yellow/green side. Needs more magenta/blue added. Unless you were going for that effect, but it kind of looks like looking through those yellow tinted sunglasses to me. ?

Im not sure if it's possible to adjust the white balance of a merged HDR raw in photoshop or not, I've never used it for that in a verrry long time because I've always found Photoshop's ability to work with RAW files very limiting

If you plan to do a lot of HDR type photos, I highly recommend AuroraHDR, it's not terribly expensive but I think it does HDRs the best out of any HDR program I've ever used.

 

[Amckim2084]

Good work,, and great start. The exposure and dynamic range is well done.

If you would mind, a gentle critique, only to help you improve.

The overall color/white balance is too far on the yellow/green side. Needs more magenta/blue added. Unless you were going for that effect, but it kind of looks like looking through those yellow tinted sunglasses to me. ?

Im not sure if it's possible to adjust the white balance of a merged HDR raw in photoshop or not, I've never used it for that in a verrry long time because I've always found Photoshop's ability to work with RAW files very limiting

If you plan to do a lot of HDR type photos, I highly recommend AuroraHDR, it's not terribly expensive but I think it does HDRs the best out of any HDR program I've ever used.

Thanks for the tips. I honestly don't know what I'm doing when it comes to photo editing as far as colors and all the other settings with it.

Here's how a person with absolutely no photoshop skills edits with photoshop lol.

Basically, watched Youtube to figure out how to shoot AEB and merge the photos. Then there was a drop down box for white balance and I chose the one that looked good to me to start out with, in this case it was shade. From there, I just started moving the bars left and right until I got something that wasn't horrible lol. I did have to reset it a few times because of how bad it turned out lol.

 

[THE CYBORG]

I take it you like the pointillism school of art ?

 

[Amckim2084]

I take it you like the pointillism school of art ?

Funny you say that. My art teacher from junior high had us do something like that once. Took a comic strip from a newspaper and projected it up on a giant canvas. Then filled in all the dots til we recreated the strip on the canvas. Turned out pretty cool.

 

[hiflyer201]

I want to like it..I really do but to me it looks like a before and after cataract surgery but with more detail in the shadows. Maybe I only say that because I really like the first one

 

[Amckim2084]

I want to like it..I really do but to me it looks like a before and after cataract surgery but with more detail in the shadows. Maybe I only say that because I really like the first one

Fair enough. At least I admitted to the butchering lol

 

[EricJT]

I want to like it..I really do but to me it looks like a before and after cataract surgery but with more detail in the shadows. Maybe I only say that because I really like the first one

I have had cataract surgery and the second one is like pre-op and the first one is is like post-op....things I thought had yellowed over the years were actually brilliant white...it was my biological lenses that had yellowed!