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The Photography thread!
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All of these photos I posted I've taken in the Prescott, Arizona area 
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Heyo, question for you guys that know a lot more about this than me. How do you handle when a shadow is across your subject? Wife took this adorable photo of ducklings cuddling. Since nature and opportunistic, you can’t get subject or your angle in full shadow or full sun to balance it out like a staged photo. Nikon D3400, no idea what aperture/shutter/iso settings she had on at the time. Some Lightroom post work on this I’m sure.
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I'm not the person to answer this; out of everyone ITT I'm probably the one person that doesn't "know a lot more about this than" you LOL. I will say that since you can see good detail in both sun and shadow, I don't think it's bad at all, though perhaps not perfect. I'm all ears to hear what others have to say though.Heyo, question for you guys that know a lot more about this than me. How do you handle when a shadow is across your subject? Wife took this adorable photo of ducklings cuddling. Since nature and opportunistic, you can’t get subject or your angle in full shadow or full sun to balance it out like a staged photo. Nikon D3400, no idea what aperture/shutter/iso settings she had on at the time. Some Lightroom post work on this I’m sure.
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Incidentally, that reminds me to mention that I have some new pics to post whenever I get a round tooit. I am hopeful they'll show improvement over the previous ones I posted here.
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Yeah I think she did a really good job on this one. The light doesn’t look overexposed and in the shadow the details aren’t too dark to be deciphered by the viewer. Just looked at it and realized wow, balancing half shadow must be difficult to do and if there were any known tricks for that
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Heyo, question for you guys that know a lot more about this than me. How do you handle when a shadow is across your subject? Wife took this adorable photo of ducklings cuddling. Since nature and opportunistic, you can’t get subject or your angle in full shadow or full sun to balance it out like a staged photo. Nikon D3400, no idea what aperture/shutter/iso settings she had on at the time. Some Lightroom post work on this I’m sure.
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If you have editing software you can lift the shadows a bit and even out the contrast. High contrast light like that can be a bitch if your subject is not facing the right way or you can get the light in front or behind you. But rule of thumb I use is make sure your subject is exposed as well as possible even if it means the foreground and or background is blown out.
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Thanks. Was looking for little advice like “Don’t mind letting something get blown out, just focus on the subject and deal with it later”
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Dont be afraid to edit it a bit as well, Lightroom and Photoshop can do some crazy work. Just do whatever you have to do to get what you want don't get caught up in the BS of what a "real" photographer would do.
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Yeah. She at least does a little in Lightroom to every photo before she shares anything online.
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The photo looks fine.
If you don't capture it IN CAMERA then its not a real photo.
Adobe is the death of photography.
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The photo looks fine.
If you don't capture it IN CAMERA then its not a real photo.
Adobe is the death of photography.
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quick edit to try and even it out a bit
Nice thanks. Yeah she had already run the original through Lightroom before I shared this, showed her your touch up and she said yeah it does look a bit better. The shadow isn’t as intense of a difference. Yellows are more yellow than overexposed to white now.
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I just lifted the shadows, dropped the highlights, adjusted the contrast. Then I added quick brush to darken the still blown out spots on the ducks and lightened the heads a little to make them stand out a little bit more.
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Some new pics, lemme know what you think.
This second one isn't especially brag-worthy to me since it is a bit washed out and lacking detail on a couple of petals on my screen, but I like it a lot anyway.
Same goes for this one, which, although it lacks the detail in the petals, contains glorious detail elsewhere.
But this is all building up to a few pics I think are really good, which I will post a little later when I have more time. Regarding the first pic, I will repost a better, full resolution version. I erred with that one. When you see it you will understand.
This second one isn't especially brag-worthy to me since it is a bit washed out and lacking detail on a couple of petals on my screen, but I like it a lot anyway.
Same goes for this one, which, although it lacks the detail in the petals, contains glorious detail elsewhere.
But this is all building up to a few pics I think are really good, which I will post a little later when I have more time. Regarding the first pic, I will repost a better, full resolution version. I erred with that one. When you see it you will understand.
