General Wedding Chit Chat Thread... (Part 2)

Problem I have with actions is that I tend to overdo them...I am constantly looking to add an action to a photo, whether is makes it better or not (or weather it really even needs it to begin with)

I think some people applly at least a mild action to all or nearly all of their photos and it's just part of their style. mrsopie comes to mind.. I think she mentioned that it's part of her workflow for batch processing, so that leads me to believe that she puts them on most images.

I am really trying to identify my own "style". But every situation and lighting calls for something different. When I really like something, I try it on lots of photos and love it on half of them and hate it on the other half. I really don't think there's one thing that works for every picture. And, I think that's why when some people most many pics, there are some i love and some I don't care for, because they used the same actions/levels/etc. on each picture and it just didn't work for some of them.

I have a couple for bw conversions in particular that I like...the ones I use are adjustable so they mostly give me a starting point. I'm not to the point where I have any actions that I feel like I want to batch other than ones that resize or add frames etc.

I just typically run a few lightroom presets on my shots, although I do have some framing actions I use from time to time. I don't really use photoshop much at all right now, only when heavier editing is required (cloning, healing large areas, etc)

Can I ask you guys if this still has a colour cast? I'm not a callibrated monitor and I've just been looking at this damn thing too long, and I thought I had fixed it, then I looked again, and it seems like there's still a colour cast....

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looks normal to me but my monitor isn't calibrated either. Bad me.

Looks good to me as well, but just like you two, the monitor I am viewing it on is not calibrated...possibly a very, very light greenish yellow cast on his shirt from the leaves and grass?

thanks guys. That greenish is what i was trying to get rid of. We were under a tree, so the filtered light was green. Atleast if all 3 of see basically the same thing, then none of our monitors can be too far off, right?

I'll play with it some more tomorrow. I think I'm going to head to bed for now. Night everyone!

lol I guess so Amanda. Every print I've ever made looks pretty darn close to my monitor and it isn't calibrated. I am afraid to calibrate it. I know people that calibrate their monitors and mess it up and can never figure out how to undo it.

Also, clients won't have calibrated monitors so if you put the pics on your website, they may not look right to the client, which is why I haven't calibrated. So long as the prints match, it doesn't matter to me.

Looks pretty good to me, Amanda

makes sense to me, karena.

Thanks Kristin.

Okay, really leaving now. have a good.. whatever it is wherever you are.

Nite

Goodnight Amanda. Who's still around? Whats going on? I'm bored out of my gourd right now, so entertain me!

ok, I officially hate 8x10 aspect...