Improving my editing

donkeymusic

donkeymusic

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Hello

Just looking for some advice on improving my editing. I am using LR4 and just wondering what your thoughts are on these three photos.
1- sooc
2- auto tone in LR4
3- Preset I like.

Ay feedback is much appreciated to help me to improve.
 
Number 3 is much nicer, although maybe make the back ground more white? if thats what you were trying to achieve? if looking for a grey style i would be more inclined to shoot looser with a hot spot on the background and grey around... if that makes sense.

Hope you dont mind the edit....

made back ground white then adjusted curves slightly
 
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I use number three a lot and wondered if the colours looked correct and not too "Instagram" it was the girl i was more concerned with and not the the background as this was to a bit off white.
 
well its the same preset that i used on number 3 in the original post.

Image 5 is straight from camera and wondered if i should be looking to edit them more natural or give them the boost so they look a bit different. so far they sell well this way.
 
donkeymusic said:
does the background look grey or blue?
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Looks both grey and blue to me. It goes colder in the corners. I'm not a fan of the colours. I find having certain parts of the workflow as a preset convenient if they are repeatable things you do all the time, but the problem with having everything as a preset, is that one size most definitely will not fit all. Whatever you're doing is definitely adding cyan to blues, so blue eyes are going an aqua colour, and the white background is going cyan/blue in the darker areas.

Another thing... although nothing to do with your processing, is the way the pupils are dilated. Is it dark in your studio prior to the flash going off? It must be, judging by how large that little girl's pupils are (and the older girl - the boy is squinting a little too much to tell). It makes them look a bit weird. Turn your modelling lights up a bit if you are using proper studio flash... or just make the room brighter if you're not.
 
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Pookeyhead said:
Looks both grey and blue to me. It goes colder in the corners. I'm not a fan of the colours. I find having certain parts of the workflow as a preset convenient if they are repeatable things you do all the time, but the problem with having everything as a preset, is that one size most definitely will not fit all. Whatever you're doing is definitely adding cyan to blues, so blue eyes are going an aqua colour, and the white background is going cyan/blue in the darker areas.

Another thing... although nothing to do with your processing, is the way the pupils are dilated. Is it dark in your studio prior to the flash going off? It must be, judging by how large that little girl's pupils are (and the older girl - the boy is squinting a little too much to tell). It makes them look a bit weird. Turn your modelling lights up a bit if you are using proper studio flash... or just make the room brighter if you're not.
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Thanks for those comments.

I had never considered the pupils of the subject, i do turn the lights off and just use the have the modelling lights switched on. I don't have a setting for the power of the modelling light. Is smaller pupils better?

Do i need to make the colours look warmer? or do i look at the cyan and blue setting? The white background isnt lit so should be more grey
 
It's not a matter of better or worse... it's just that wide open pupils tend to be associated with two things.. being the in dark, or being on drugs :) The second one clearly isn;t the case with young children, but the wide open pupils don't match the bright lighting... looks odd. Your modelling lights must be quite dim to force a pupils to be so wide open.
 
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