3 weeks...........CC Requested

[azpix]

a shot of our newest child. C and C requested.

I'm having to really boost the blacks in LR to kill the back ground. The background is black clothe.

To those of you that shoot on black, are you getting blacks right out of the camera or do you have to edit???

http://www.coreyschimmel.com/banding-2.jpg

[markubig]

i've also had to kill the black in post also. Here's some examples:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=607831

I was, however, finding that if i did it in ACR, the black background would disappear, but the blacks on the subject became too dark, so I ended up properly exposing the subject in ACR, then after conversion, used masking techniques to kill the black background. Some came out great and others you can tell that i did it. Just started doing it, so I assume I'll get better at it.

[FocalPrincess]

You got a great pose as far as the baby...and the baby is ADORABLE. Could you bring up the overall brightness a smidge now that you got the blacks taken care of?

And I almost always and up duplicating my layer and burning the background on photos with a black background...and then lowering the opacity till I like how it looks. It leaves a smidge of the detail there, yet makes it look nice and black. It also never fails that I've got fuzzies, so I heal or clone those out.

[markubig]

And I almost always and up duplicating my layer and burning the background on photos with a black background...and then lowering the opacity till I like how it looks. It leaves a smidge of the detail there, yet makes it look nice and black. It also never fails that I've got fuzzies, so I heal or clone those out. oooo . . . your method seems to be more efficient than mine. Just to clarify, you make a duplicate copy. burn the background around the subject. and then adjust the opacity of the top layer?

[kevindar]

the picture has become a touch too dark for me. yes, I do have to also burn the bg a little bit, but its usually reasonably easy

[NSG40D]

I kill it either with a spot exposure adjustment in LR, or a levels adjustment, then paint the baby back via a mask.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=617174

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=616683

[frleal70]

Love this shot. This is going to sound dumb, but how was it done? Did you just lay the baby on a black pillow w/ black background? tia.