Pumpkin Fun
We went to a pumpkin patch with Bryan’s usual play dates over the weekend. It was unusually warm considering how crazy the weather had been in the days prior to that. The kids had fun, except Bryan still felt pretty sick and didn’t feel like jumping in for the fun.
The biggest lesson I got out of these past two photo sessions has been figuring out a comfortable work flow I can live with for dealing with 300+ images from each session. The colors are also becoming more consistent after monitor calibration, finalized output work flow using Apple’s Aperture, Photoshop and a decent conversion setting from Adobe RGB to sRGB color spaces. I’ve been getting some very constructive and positive feedbacks on the shots. Have a visit to my Flickr page and tell me what you like, dislike or any other thoughts on your mind!
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October 11th, 2007 at 6:48 am
I am stunned by the intensity of these. I don’t know how much editign you did afterwards, but it’s working really well. Rock on, man. Maybe I should have a kid so you can photograph him/her. LOL
Nah.
October 11th, 2007 at 9:44 am
I will be revealing some of the secrets of my techniques in the coming days as I become more progressive in doing this — hoping to eventually replace my income from programming with photography (in other words, “going pro” with it).
But to answer your question, most of the images (if in color) are as is with minor edits like:
1. Pulling the luminosity curves to where they should be (to get the darkest blacks, brightest whites… etc);
2. White balance/color correction where need be;
3. Sharpening (almost ALL digital images need some kind of sharpening due to the technologies involves in how digital cameras work);
It’s the black & whites where I spend most time on. Also some of the pseudo infrared images also needed additional tweaking.
The colors DID look that vivid and vibrant that day at the pumpkin patch. So I think what you see is relatively accurate. The key in capturing great “initial” colors is in good lens. I can write a whole entry just on this… But the gist of it is, people tend to get good DSLR bodies but get el cheapo lenses when in fact the lens is arguably more important than the camera itself. That said, the art in photography is just like any other… it’s the person behind the lens that makes the images… Good equipment simply facilitates…