Originally posted by BigMackCam I really like the colours in your images, Ed. In particular, the photo of the chap with a coffee cup in his hand has a very film-like feel to it. I wonder, how much of this is due to the light in your part of the world, the specific lenses, raw converter + input profile, and/or post-processing. Would you care to share?
First, thank you kindly for this comment. These 2 Minolta Macro lenses colours on the Sony Alphas are always very vibrant; while not done in these samples, I sometimes have to take the saturation slide into the negative (-2 at most). I love these lenses.
I shoot RAW and PP in Capture One. My usual touches are simple and subtle; just trying to get a bit of pop and to mimic as much as possible the original image.
The bloke with the coffee cup...
I really dig this image myself (not trying to pat myself in the back, I just really liked it from the moment I saw it on the camera's LCD). This shot was taken on a partially sunny morning (9am) in New York (The Bronx)... In Spring, so the sun is already a bit high in the sky - it hits you at about a 100 degree angle from above.
But the light was not all; I must add that this shot was taken through my windshiled while I was at a red light. Hence the nice upward angle and the film-sy green/blue hue that I couldn't get rid of by adjusting the temperature or green/red level (Honestly I did not ant to take the effect off at all, but I tried to see if it was possible.)
Cat's out of the bag now
- Cheers!
PS - to add, it was shot from the hip, AV mode - the AF in these lenses is that good.