5UBs Photographs

A bit of tweaking with unsharp mask on the eyes would correct the sharpness easily I think. What do you use to process the photos? I don't know if it's the same for others but on my screens they look like the white balance is biased toward the green/blue end in some of the pictures. That and direct flash was used in a few causing some unflattering reflections and light cast on the animals - One example is #4.

A bit of punchy processing and I think it would make a nice difference!
 
A lot of the images here have not been edited and just cropped. I need to learn the processing. I have used some Canon software on a couple to have a play with HDR stuff but didn't really turn out well so the images are just RAW at the moment.

When editing your photos, is there a process that you go through?

Is there something you always edit when doing so, or do you just edit on the fly and just change things depending on what the photo looks like?
 
5UB said:
A lot of the images here have not been edited and just cropped. I need to learn the processing. I have used some Canon software on a couple to have a play with HDR stuff but didn't really turn out well so the images are just RAW at the moment.

When editing your photos, is there a process that you go through?

Is there something you always edit when doing so, or do you just edit on the fly and just change things depending on what the photo looks like?
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Ah that makes sense then as they did initially look like untouched Raws to me!

Really depends on the kind of look you're going for. Maybe a first start would be to get the colours punchy but not over saturated, something that loosely resembled a cinematic look is often a good starting point though this is all subjective so I can't really say what processing result is good or bad, as that's largely down to how you want your images to be seen.
 
5UB said:
A lot of the images here have not been edited and just cropped. I need to learn the processing. I have used some Canon software on a couple to have a play with HDR stuff but didn't really turn out well so the images are just RAW at the moment.

When editing your photos, is there a process that you go through?

Is there something you always edit when doing so, or do you just edit on the fly and just change things depending on what the photo looks like?
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As mrk said, it really depends what look you are going for, but I will generally twiddle around with contrast and clarity on the majority of my shots, as RAW files come out quite flat generally, and a small touch of sharpening where needed. It really depends on what sort of look you want though (punchy and in your face, soft and dreamy, etc) as the end results can be extremely varied (see the "edit my RAW" thread from ages ago where everyone had a go at editing one RAW file and posted their results)
 
I went to the Monkey Forest again today. I am preferring these shots to my previous.

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As regards to editing, what software would you recommend? Anything that is free?
 
Wow ISO 6400 in the first, 3200 in another and 1600 being the lowest of the newer pics. Was ISO set to auto or Program AE mode being used? Using such high ISOs can result in even flatter colours in certain scenarios especially on APS-c sensors - As you were in daylight conditions for all those shots I'd say you could very easily have gotten away with ISO 800 max in that kind of lighting but nominal would have been around say ISO 400 where you'd have pulled enough shutter speed to compensate for any camera shake anyway at those long focal lengths.

As for processing, Lightroom really is the best package out there. It isn't free (after the trial anyway) but really is worth investing in. It's not a huge cost compared to the likes of Photoshop and you will find yourself feeling like it's a part of your workflow quickly and wonder how you did without it.
 
5UB said:
As regards to editing, what software would you recommend? Anything that is free?
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Use Lightroom. It's under £100 and the power and capabilities are well worth it.

At the moment Adobe are doing a Creative Cloud deal to get Lightroom and Photoshop for £8.90 a month.

Lightroom is free for 30 days if you download it too.

Lightroom can also be used to catalogue your photos, keyword, work non destructively on your photos, apply the same changes to multiple files in seconds, export to files or Flickr or to Web galleries (need some plugins for Web galleries, built in ones are crap), add watermarks to all the exported files easily and loads more.

Also a small fact regarding ISO. The higher your ISO, the smaller the dynamic range on your pictures.
 
A couple more. - Still not edited. Just resized. Need to learn the whole editing thing when I have my new PC in a few months. :)

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