The SOOC (straight out of camera) thread

[Ksanti]

I figured this could be a pretty cool thread to see how people shoot before processing. Obviously plenty of shots are made entirely with the intention of massive amounts of processing, but it'd be pretty cool to share what they look like coming into photoshop? Feel free to post the edited version as well but definitely post the straight into lightroom file (bar resizing obv)

One from today, not had a chance to do too much of my old school stuff so when the sun peeked through the clouds on a fine art shoot today I just had to get off a few Not sure if flare is cheating, but I love it

 

[Ksanti]

That image in particular I did very little to as I like it as is and don't like aggressively retouching particularly not on just casual shoots with friends (I'd be more aggressive if a client asked for it basically). The sum of what I did was bring the blacks back just a little bit, not a real preference but I wanted to do /something/ and just fixed the fringing basically.

and a b/w for good measure

On Alex's photo, I think it could work, but your clarity, b/w mix or localized contrast adjustments have made the bokeh incredibly busy and distracting which I think you need to sort out.

With regard to SOOC being the way forward, I'd say not at all. It depends of course on what you're shooting but I come at photography from a much more significant art/graphic design background than a lot of people so I shoot with an idea of how I'm going to process, of course sometimes getting it nice sooc is very nice but with a lot of work it just doesn't help that much. I tend to limit myself to colour processing, spot removal etc. and general things that you can't "get right in camera" but if my option is spend 30 minutes moving everything out of a scene on the shoot and killing the energy and momentum of a shoot, and spending 4 minutes in post sorting it out, it'll be the latter every time for me.

 

[Ksanti]

My images at the moment are all Sigma 85 with my D800, if I ever use the Sigma 35 I flag it up but ultimately you should really be able to tell the difference between an 85mm shot and a 35mm shot