Originally posted by Sailor Again, thanks for taking the time to reprocess the shots to show me your vision of how these photos should look. We're all wired differently and thus see things differently; it's interesting to look at one's photos through the eyes of another.
Hi Jer,
It's a useful exercise, and helps me to understand what can be improved and how, after all we are in the forum for this As I have had occasion to point out, only trying several times you understand where you want to get.
I said before that maybe the spot reading would be more correct, but it must be done beforehand to get the information we need later, in this case there is the sea that forces you to underexpose the body of the bird
(whatever it is). In that case, either perform the measurement before or overexpose the measurement because Pentax (not only) generally tends to underexpose in Center Weighted mode, or worse in Multi segment.
The alternative is EV compensation. I'll point out that I created the album to upload the photos, I had never done it, in many years.
Best wishes for your future shots.
Originally posted by str8talk83 First one is great and the second is just a little underexposed.
I tend to use fill light in my camera raw converter as well as photoshop. I'm also a Nik user and I like to use Viveza to bring out shadows in specific areas without removing the contrast from the overall image. Nik is free, so you might try using that.
Hi
str8talk83,
I remember why you wanted or were undecided about which lens to buy in the end I think you chose the Pentax 50-135 is so?
As you say, I understand that you use ACR and you do most of the work, then you finish the rest in PS. I must say that I installed the Nik Collection only once but I'm not very familiar with the filters,
I use mostly Levels, Curves, Layer Mask and calculation. Photoshop is already great so, of course there are many plug-ins and/or filters.
Anyway, I really thank you for your participation and I wish you also excellent shots and to improve them subsequently.