The value of working with Color, Post the shots you saved via post production!

Hi all, small little post to illustrate the value of post processing your images, even if they initially look shiet (don't pronounce the e)you might still be able to salvage something usable out of it.

so that everyone can see the difference post a shot SOOC and then the edited version that is what some would call "improved"

Side note: just want to clarify, this isn't supposed to become a thread that motivates poor thought process (light comp. etc.) but instead a place to demonstrate that a shot that looks like a total lemon can end up being better then just half decent.

Happy shooting!

I might be an avid post processor, nonetheless I am a bit selective about the images taken and used.

Understood. I simply thought it may be interesting to try and show what CAN be done on the off chance that a poorly composed shot does find its way onto a memory card. I in no way meant for this to encourage poor technique.

Also seams as though this thread may not take off, unfortunate I guess.

Camofelix wrote in post #17490549
Understood. I simply thought it may be interesting to try and show what CAN be done on the off chance that a poorly composed shot does find its way onto a memory card.

Nice idea for a thread but ultimately unlikely to generate much interest because time spent rescuing bad photos would be better spent learning to take good ones. When I started out I used my post processing to save poorly executed shots... manly because all my shots were poorly executed.

As I developed as a photographer and post processor less of my shots were poorly executed and I found that my PP efforts were better spent enhancing the great shots rather than saving ones that would, at best be fair to good.

I work part-time as an archivist for my community, digitizing a very large collection of negatives, slides and prints in photo albums. Because many of the prints have deteriorated over time - fading, colors changing, etc. - or were poorly printed by automatic machines, part of my work becomes restoration also. Because I also have to maintain a certain output rate, the restoration is often not as much as I do for material that will be printed, but still can return some life to photos that otherwise will be lost. An example from a few days ago; the 3.5 x 5 inch print was from 1975.

This would include salvaged photos from working in RAW I take it?

SOOC:

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^ ^ Good one! I wouldn't have expected that we could pull that much detail, even from a RAW file. Here's my not quite as bad underexposure screw up: Why I love RAW - '53 Ford Sunliner

PhotosGuy wrote in post #17491177
^ ^ Good one! I wouldn't have expected that we could pull that much detail, even from a RAW file. Here's my not quite as bad underexposure screw up: Why I love RAW - '53 Ford Sunliner

Thanks! Something about the X-Trans sensor in the Fuji X-T1. They process in LR completely differently than my 7D RAWs, with which I've never seen color pop out of the shadows like that. It was taken at the native ISO (200 via auto-iso) and aperture priority definitely missed its mark. I had started a burst just before this shot that had the outside properly exposed.

sporadic wrote in post #17492477
Thanks! Something about the X-Trans sensor in the Fuji X-T1. They process in LR completely differently than my 7D RAWs, with which I've never seen color pop out of the shadows like that. It was taken at the native ISO (200 via auto-iso) and aperture priority definitely missed its mark. I had started a burst just before this shot that had the outside properly exposed.

Well in a lot of cameras the exposure will be locked at the start of a burst. So that would be the result I would expect to see in the case where you are suddenly plunged into virtual darkness. The ride will be designed so that you are not really in the tunnel long enough for your vision to accommodate either.

Alan

Definitely! I like the idea of this thread also becoming something members can point to to say "THIS is why you shoot raw"

Great save btw, I'm amazed by how much you were able to pull out of it!

Camofelix wrote in post #17505884
Definitely! I like the idea of this thread also becoming something members can point to to say "THIS is why you shoot raw"

Great save btw, I'm amazed by how much you were able to pull out of it!

Have you checked out our "Show us your Raw Conversions Before and After" thread?