Off to the Park!

sry407

So by request from our daughter, we headed out to the park today. I took my camera with to get some fun shots, and was pretty happy with the outcome overall. More pics/info are on my blog, and the whole set in on my website.

Thanks for looking, and C&C is always welcomed!

Adam

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2. This was on the way to the park...


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Jwar

1&4 are the best. She really cute:D

Photosbychuck

Nice Shots

The kids skin tones in #6, #7 & #8 are blown out.

bdcolen

Photosbychuck wrote:

Nice Shots

The kids skin tones in #6, #7 & #8 are blown out.

Not really - look in PS - there are some spots that are over exposed, but by no means are they blown out. I believe she has very pale skin.

sry407

bdcolen,

So you got me curious as to what's going on here. It does look like the skin is blown out in some areas, but as you posted my finall PP image in ACR...there's minor clipping in my edit for the skin (the blacks are a different story ). So I pulled up the RAW image in ACR and checked out the clipping, and MINOR clipping w/ zero in the skin on the face...zero.

I know I added clipping from my contrast and highlights, and I'm ok with that because that's a PP error I can learn from/fix; no problem. My question taken from this is that overall, my kid has your average skin tome for a toddler Caucasian.

So what I want to figure out is how to correct this in camera, not in ACR or CS4. The sun was pretty darn harsh, we left early because it kicked or butts! So having a normal skin toned kid in harsh sun, what are some tips you all might have to keep it from looking like blown highlights where there really are none in the histogram???

Thanks for any input and advice!

Adam

Trevlan

sry407 wrote:

bdcolen,

So you got me curious as to what's going on here. It does look like the skin is blown out in some areas, but as you posted my finall PP image in ACR...there's minor clipping in my edit for the skin (the blacks are a different story ). So I pulled up the RAW image in ACR and checked out the clipping, and MINOR clipping w/ zero in the skin on the face...zero.

I know I added clipping from my contrast and highlights, and I'm ok with that because that's a PP error I can learn from/fix; no problem. My question taken from this is that overall, my kid has your average skin tome for a toddler Caucasian.

So what I want to figure out is how to correct this in camera, not in ACR or CS4. The sun was pretty darn harsh, we left early because it kicked or butts! So having a normal skin toned kid in harsh sun, what are some tips you all might have to keep it from looking like blown highlights where there really are none in the histogram???

Thanks for any input and advice!

Adam

In this case, where you are not using flash, you'll just want to concentrate on exposing properly for the face. Use the spot meter in camera.

sry407

Trevlan wrote:

In this case, where you are not using flash, you'll just want to concentrate on exposing properly for the face. Use the spot meter in camera.

Thanks for the input, I will definitely work on that next time!

Thanks...