Cool gallery....what in-camera settings do you use?virtuamike said:
RAW so everything is off. Color space II (Adobe). Auto WB -1. Manual w/ spot meter the majority of the time.yahtzee said:Cool gallery....what in-camera settings do you use?virtuamike said:
So do you have a typical workflow? Your pics just look like they "pop" more than the average D70.virtuamike said:RAW so everything is off. Color space II (Adobe). Auto WB -1. Manual w/ spot meter the majority of the time.yahtzee said:Cool gallery....what in-camera settings do you use?virtuamike said:
Typical workflow is convert from RAW with Nikon View into Photoshop 7. Sometimes I'll use Nikon View to bump the exposure up or down but I save the rest of the adjustments for PS. Once it's exported I do level and curve to adjust for overall brightness and contrast (small S curve), and then color balance for WB if needed (moreso for low light and indoor shots). If it's something I'm prepping for print then I'll make a grey overlay and do a dodge/burn (about a third of the pics in the gallery were D&B). Then it's just resize, sRGB convert, sharpen w/ USM, and save for web.yahtzee said:So do you have a typical workflow? Your pics just look like they "pop" more than the average D70.virtuamike said:RAW so everything is off. Color space II (Adobe). Auto WB -1. Manual w/ spot meter the majority of the time.yahtzee said:Cool gallery....what in-camera settings do you use?virtuamike said:
what does the grey overlay and dodge/burn accomplish and how does it work?virtuamike said:Typical workflow is convert from RAW with Nikon View into Photoshop 7. Sometimes I'll use Nikon View to bump the exposure up or down but I save the rest of the adjustments for PS. Once it's exported I do level and curve to adjust for overall brightness and contrast (small S curve), and then color balance for WB if needed (moreso for low light and indoor shots). If it's something I'm prepping for print then I'll make a grey overlay and do a dodge/burn (about a third of the pics in the gallery were D&B). Then it's just resize, sRGB convert, sharpen w/ USM, and save for web.
50% grey overlay. Make a new layer and fill it with 50% grey. Change blend from normal to overlay. Use the dodge/burn tool on the overlay itselt and not the background layer. That way you're working off an adjustment layer instead of dodge/burning actual pixels, much smoother. You can also change the layer opacity to adjust the overall effect.yahtzee said:what does the grey overlay and dodge/burn accomplish and how does it work?virtuamike said:Typical workflow is convert from RAW with Nikon View into Photoshop 7. Sometimes I'll use Nikon View to bump the exposure up or down but I save the rest of the adjustments for PS. Once it's exported I do level and curve to adjust for overall brightness and contrast (small S curve), and then color balance for WB if needed (moreso for low light and indoor shots). If it's something I'm prepping for print then I'll make a grey overlay and do a dodge/burn (about a third of the pics in the gallery were D&B). Then it's just resize, sRGB convert, sharpen w/ USM, and save for web.
Thanks for the idea. I hope that mine turns out half as nice as yours!virtuamike said:
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