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Luminosity issue with photos in LR/PS.
Hi Guys I'm editing some headshot photos I took of a model and sometimes I check the brights and exposure of my photos with auto correct in LR/photoshop and It's totally wrecking these photos. I would say my photos are a little hot in the highlights but nothing is over exposed yet LR auto pulls the highlights way down and turns the lights up as well as the shadows. If I leave the photo the way it came out of the camera I can't see some of the skin texture clearly cause the highlights are a little bright but not overblown or peaking on the histogram. What's the rule of thumb on how bright a photo has to be in order to pop with luminosity and yet not blow out the skin tones even though the histogram says they're not blown out? The images on the left are straight out the camera. The ones on the right are auto corrected by LR4  Jul 05 13 04:57 pm Link Auto correct should more properly be called "auto dog's breakfast'. It might do a tolerable job with a holiday snap or a landscape (I've not checked) but using it on most model photos is more likely to ruin them than improve them IMHO. My personal rule of thumb for Caucasian skin tones when retouching for web viewing is not to push any channel above about 240 if I can help it as lots of cheap monitors and laptop screens start to blow out highlights to white above that. Other than that, assuming you have a properly calibrated monitor, do what your eye tells you is most pleasing. Just my $0.02 Ciao Stefano www.stefanobrunesci.com Jul 05 13 05:32 pm Link You shoot manual with your camera for better control (I checked the EXIF data), why would you use auto adjust in post-processing?? Follow what Stefano above said. From my experience, it is always the red channel that gets blown first. Jul 05 13 05:56 pm Link That Italian Guy wrote: The truth right here! Jul 05 13 06:29 pm Link That Italian Guy wrote: Jul 05 13 11:57 pm Link Jeff Fiore wrote: Yeah Jeff I shoot manual with strobes and sometimes check my raw tweaks with auto correct to see what it does. Can you tell me if the skin tones on the left photo's look blown out on your monitor? Maybe it's a monitor issue I'm dealing with. Jul 06 13 12:01 am Link Adam J Caldwell wrote: Thanks Adam. I'm going to see if I'm in that range. Do the highlights in the left pictures look blown out on your monitor? Jul 06 13 12:03 am Link Most of your highlights are above 240, pushing 250. Jul 06 13 12:19 am Link As above, most are over 240. Jul 06 13 03:30 am Link |
