I'm never throwing away a picture again

Someone told me "remember Che Guevarra" and told me the story about the classic picture of Che.

That was one reason to stop deleting images.

Anotherone I just discovered working in Lightroom using custom whitebalance and going through my pictures of Styx last week.

The original comes first.

HOLY CARP!!! I would have never thought PP would do that much. I am terible fixing pictures in the computer. But this makes me wanna sign up for a class and learn. Great touch up. How was the show?

Richtherookie wrote in post #3177268
HOLY CARP!!! I would have never thought PP would do that much. I am terible fixing pictures in the computer. But this makes me wanna sign up for a class and learn. Great touch up. How was the show?

I sat and blinked thinking I was hallucinating. Even shook my head and stared at the screen. I want to run out and find books on Lightroom. Unfortunately I have a couple of very annoyed clients who are waiting for updates on their sites so have to deal with them first. But once that is done, I am diving straight back in to this.

I'm learning so much from this site and from musicphotoforums it's unbelivable. But the custom white balance trick was one learnt overhearing what that band manager was teaching my protege last week.

Got to write him a thank you e-mail.

The show was absolutely amazing! As in another stycx post of mine, I've waited almost 25 years to see these guys (and I also like Gowan's solo work) so it was a treat being able to watch the show from the pit.

She

No kidding, RAW files are so amazing. When I learn something new I always want to go back and apply it to my old images. I'm just beginning to get into blended exposures...

That is stunning! Could you please elaberate on this part... "Then I upped the luminance on blue, grabbed the picker, clicked at the whitest spot I found and the result is the second image."
Sorry I don't have lightroom(?) so not sure what you are talking about!!

olly_k wrote in post #3177405
That is stunning! Could you please elaberate on this part... "Then I upped the luminance on blue, grabbed the picker, clicked at the whitest spot I found and the result is the second image."
Sorry I don't have lightroom(?) so not sure what you are talking about!!

You can download a 30 da trial at adobe.com/downloads

Basically I upped exposure.

then i went in to color correction in lightroom and upped the luminance on blue to almost 100%, scrolled up to whitebalance, chose "custom" grabbed the little color picker and clicked at the whitest spot in the picture (think it was on his cheek) and presto - the second picture is the result.

Great work She, really good job on the PP there where do you mostly work then seense as cheltenham is really small lol.
Cheers

That is really cool, just started using lightroom myself.....

livewire-photography.com wrote in post #3177662
Great work She, really good job on the PP there where do you mostly work then seense as cheltenham is really small lol.
Cheers

Check your PMs Coffee is on me.

At home today, though. The mild migraine is about to explode to a full blown version.

She

olly_k wrote in post #3177405
That is stunning! Could you please elaberate on this part... "Then I upped the luminance on blue, grabbed the picker, clicked at the whitest spot I found and the result is the second image."
Sorry I don't have lightroom(?) so not sure what you are talking about!!

You can do this in just about any RAW converter. DPP will work, I prefer ACR (adobe camera raw). With the WB eye dropper tool you can also click on a white, black or grey point to set the white balance (but white usually gives best results). His collar (the non-blown part) would have worked well in this image. Also, often times the mic or mic cord will have a little white collar or sleeve that works great as a source point for setting WB (that's what I used in several of these photos). The key is to choose a source point that is receiving direct light from the main light source and is not blown. Set the WB before making exposure adjustments, as the WB will effect the highlights and may help bring back some otherwise overexposed color channels.

I got to photograph Styx last year, Lawrence is looking older, but they were a very fun band to photograph. Because of my media access, I was literally 4 feet from some of the speaker stacks, so earplugs were life savers, and you could see the image through the viewfinder literally shake with each beat of the drums.
One of my best concert experiences really, regardless of who they are/were, just how they were polite to the camera, and played with the photogs by posing the usual crazy stuff while doing solos, was a riot. (Biggest prick ever in concert was Mike Love, from the Beach Boys, he was dressed in an all Maui Attire - I guess they wish they all could be hawaiian girls- and kept making gestures and silly signs at me, I kid you not... bah, maybe I was too close to stage for his taste).

Sorry, Back to OP. I have never thrown a photo away completely, I still keep an archive with all the Masters (photogs as saved out of the mem cards) because you never know.

Impressive PP skills, or great Adobe Program. I am going to download Lightroom Trial right now, and see how it compares and complements with CS2.

Thanks for sharing, and great photo.

Shooting Raw is nice, ainnit?

René Damkot wrote in post #3178466
Shooting Raw is nice, ainnit?

Oh yeah. And I think you've got me hooked on getting a billingham 445 now as well. Keeping an eye on them on ebay at the moment.

She

I just used up over 100 Gigs of memory on my external hard drive since January... I'm not a pro, and only shoot shows... There's about 136 Gigs left on the HD... I was thinking of trashing some pics...

But I know what you mean SHE, if there is potential to recover in the future, it's best to keep them all... So thanks for the reinforcing reminder...or I probably would be trashing pics soon...

Yes, same here regarding Styx... I was in the front row center, of the pit... got all the close ups I, and the camera could handle...

If only we wore the same black T shirts to all of our events, they would know who we are as a group...

Nice work as usual She, ive been so slow with gigs recently. Shooting Blood Red Shoes at the academy soon though so i'll have to try some of that pp on those.

you, are an inspiration to us all. - a very quick learner.

x