Thanks Rob. Sometimes, just saying “smile kids” is a heck of a lot easier 🙂
I agree, Peter! Nice to see you back by the way. 😉
Nice to be back. Appreciate the warm reception.
Peter, I can only guess how much your children will treasure all these photos — posed or more creatively done — when they’re older. Good for you for caring so for these moments; beautifully seen as usual.
Thanks Henry. I had planned to be off work on this day, from even before the last school year ended… wouldn’t miss it for the world.
Hi Peter, this picture is taken with my exact equipment, so I’m viewing with even more interest then usual. The colour signature I get in Aperture 3 is more pastel then here, I usually adjust levels and vibrancy a little, the look I achieve is fairly film like which I like for many of my pictures, but my flesh tones are not as creamy as here. I’ve seen this look from your M9/ME and gave myself the excuse that it was due to the condensed pixels (appreciate M8/9 has same individual pixel size), but you’ve achieved it here with the M8 (I really like the 46mm equivalent lens), would you be able to share some of your raw tweaks. Warm regards.
Hello Adam,
I post-process by eye, occasionally spending many hours honing a single image. The adjustments are small, and incrementally applied. My method this week differs from what I was doing six months ago… this will also be true six months from today.
If it seems like I’m avoiding answering your question, I am! But I’m being honest when I say: my process is very personal, not open to a “cookbook” interpretation, and does not lend itself to discussion on this site.
I hope you understand.
Peter.
By the way Adam, this one took about 20 minutes to process.
Actually you have provided me with more than you think, following my note yesterday I stayed on computer and edited three pictures, taken together at a vineyard with a storm looming yet, depending on the angle of shoot there were different amounts of sky with different amounts of white, grey and black clouds. I processed each by eye sometimes using dodge, sometimes contract, brightness, sometimes mid-contrast, even a little bit of polarizer on one. I thought to myself there must be an easier way, but perhaps there isn’t, so you’ve given me quite a lot, I can carry on as is without wondering if I’m not missing some great secret. Of course at times it can be frustrating, sometimes I mix this with that, add something here, take something there and never quite get there, move to a very similar shot a little fatigued change very little and bingo it’s there, and I think to myself why didn’t I think of that in the first place. At those time I wish I had a simple recipe.
Great! You understand then, that there is indeed no simple recipe and each photo has to be “custom-processed” to bring out its true potential.
Sometimes, when I’ve been working on an image for a long time, I find it helpful to step away from it for a while, and view it later with “fresh” eyes. I also find it helpful to view it on different monitors, because the rendering is not quite the same on each one.
Peter.
Such a wonderful photograph. Love it!
Hope all is well, Peter.
Thank you Bijan. All is well… I hope the same for you.
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Thanks Rob. Sometimes, just saying “smile kids” is a heck of a lot easier 🙂
I agree, Peter! Nice to see you back by the way. 😉
Nice to be back. Appreciate the warm reception.
Peter, I can only guess how much your children will treasure all these photos — posed or more creatively done — when they’re older. Good for you for caring so for these moments; beautifully seen as usual.
Thanks Henry. I had planned to be off work on this day, from even before the last school year ended… wouldn’t miss it for the world.
Hi Peter, this picture is taken with my exact equipment, so I’m viewing with even more interest then usual. The colour signature I get in Aperture 3 is more pastel then here, I usually adjust levels and vibrancy a little, the look I achieve is fairly film like which I like for many of my pictures, but my flesh tones are not as creamy as here. I’ve seen this look from your M9/ME and gave myself the excuse that it was due to the condensed pixels (appreciate M8/9 has same individual pixel size), but you’ve achieved it here with the M8 (I really like the 46mm equivalent lens), would you be able to share some of your raw tweaks. Warm regards.
Hello Adam,
I post-process by eye, occasionally spending many hours honing a single image. The adjustments are small, and incrementally applied. My method this week differs from what I was doing six months ago… this will also be true six months from today.
Ultimately, my goal is to make the post-processing invisible (see my previous post: http://photographsbypeter.com/2011/10/07/over-processed-not/).
If it seems like I’m avoiding answering your question, I am! But I’m being honest when I say: my process is very personal, not open to a “cookbook” interpretation, and does not lend itself to discussion on this site.
I hope you understand.
Peter.
By the way Adam, this one took about 20 minutes to process.
Actually you have provided me with more than you think, following my note yesterday I stayed on computer and edited three pictures, taken together at a vineyard with a storm looming yet, depending on the angle of shoot there were different amounts of sky with different amounts of white, grey and black clouds. I processed each by eye sometimes using dodge, sometimes contract, brightness, sometimes mid-contrast, even a little bit of polarizer on one. I thought to myself there must be an easier way, but perhaps there isn’t, so you’ve given me quite a lot, I can carry on as is without wondering if I’m not missing some great secret. Of course at times it can be frustrating, sometimes I mix this with that, add something here, take something there and never quite get there, move to a very similar shot a little fatigued change very little and bingo it’s there, and I think to myself why didn’t I think of that in the first place. At those time I wish I had a simple recipe.
Great! You understand then, that there is indeed no simple recipe and each photo has to be “custom-processed” to bring out its true potential.
Sometimes, when I’ve been working on an image for a long time, I find it helpful to step away from it for a while, and view it later with “fresh” eyes. I also find it helpful to view it on different monitors, because the rendering is not quite the same on each one.
Peter.
Such a wonderful photograph. Love it!
Hope all is well, Peter.
Thank you Bijan. All is well… I hope the same for you.