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Could someone please tell me how my exposure and color looks on this photo? I have a bunch like this one shot mostly in the shade. I want to make sure his skin tone looks good and that there is no color cast. Thanks for looking.
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18-135mm 3.5-5.6
50mm 1.4
SB600
18-135mm 3.5-5.6
50mm 1.4
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I'd also crop from the bottom and left to put him less centered.
VERY good shot, though! Definitely worth doing a few *minor* twead! Wonderful job...
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18-135mm 3.5-5.6
50mm 1.4
SB600
Thanks Dave...How do I do this in elements 5?
18-135mm 3.5-5.6
50mm 1.4
SB600
I also have PSE5 , go to "enhance " - " adjust color " - " remove color cast " and click on a 'white' surface on the picture [ eyes etc. ] . This will automatically remove the blue in this case .
Thank you.....I did that and it looks like it worked. How does it look now?
18-135mm 3.5-5.6
50mm 1.4
SB600
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You can also play around with the "adjust for skin tone " feature of the " adjust color " section " . It works very much the same way as the "remove color cast " but instead of clicking on something white you click on the skin .
Thanks..I will try that too. One more question I hope you do not mind answering. Is there a work around in Elements 5 to find the Cyan and Magenta values? Or am I safe reading the histogram if there are no pixels of red, blue or green touching the edges?
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50mm 1.4
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I don't know about cyan and magenta but if you click on the arrow next to "channel" on the histogram you can choose any of three colors , red , green or blue to view or "color" which seems to show cyan and magenta .
ok , I got this from the help section after typing in "cyan " ...
Colors Displays the composite RGB histogram individually by color. Red, green, and blue represent the pixels in those channels. Cyan, magenta, and yellow represent where the histograms of two channels overlap. Gray represents areas where all three color channel histograms overlap.
Grayscale images have a single channel option: Gray.
Anyway I wouldn't worry too much about histograms if the picture looks good to the eye .
One more thing to try with your picture , I tried it and it looks good , I just wasn't sure of an easy way to upload the picture . Open the picture again is PSE5 , do a "remove color cast " and click on his white shirt and see how much warmer the picture gets . His eyes may have a bit of a yellow cast to them naturally so there is still a slight blue on the shirt which goes away when you remove the color cast and his face gets much "warmer" which looks better to me .
...and thank you Cathie for your comment.
18-135mm 3.5-5.6
50mm 1.4
SB600
Thank you for your detailed post. I will try that. I wasn't sure if by removing the blue color cast I was making him look too yellow. I have been desaturating the red channel slightly -7 and putting in .90 in red levels box instead of .100 just to be safe. It's only a slight difference but I just want to make sure when she orders prints he doesn't appear too red or yellow.
18-135mm 3.5-5.6
50mm 1.4
SB600