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AlexIs · March 31, 2005

Hi forum, I've been lurking around here since quite a while, without posting however. I started out with photography one year ago (with a sony v1) and learned heaps by browsing STF, the canon fora and dgrin.

I take this opportunity to thank Andy W. who is a big inspiration (I think for all of us here)! And of course a thank you to all other members here! I think this is a great place:thumb .

My first post: a friend of mine in his kitchen, yesterday evening, during a birthday party in Antwerp (Belgium), picture right out of the box, no post, handhold. Shot with a canon 20d, 24-70 L. I hope you like it!

I would be very thankful for your comments on how to improve this image...

PS Still got to find me an avatar. Will come up with one later!

gus · March 31, 2005

G'day Alex...welcome to D/grin

lynnma · March 31, 2005

Hi AlexIs

glad you stopped lurking and decided to join us..

Angelo · March 31, 2005

Welcome Alex and congratulations on your "de-lurking"

We hope to see many more posts from you. You asked for opinions on this portrait... I only see that the flash seems hot - harsh light on the cabinet door and his forehead and strong shadows at his eyes and shoulders. I'm sure others will give good tips how to correct this.

AlexIs · March 31, 2005

Angelo wrote:

Welcome Alex and congratulations on your "de-lurking"

We hope to see many more posts from you. You asked for opinions on this portrait... I only see that the flash seems hot - harsh light on the cabinet door and his forehead and strong shadows at his eyes and shoulders. I'm sure others will give good tips how to correct this.

Thanks a lot for your comments, Angelo! I rarely use flash and in situations like these it is always a guess...and hope that it turns out good! I always shoot in M and finding the correct exposure with a flash is quite abstract to me

Thanks!

canonguy · March 31, 2005

Welcome. I haven't been here long, but these guys are excellent. Lots of tips tricks and good all 'round advice.

Beyond Angelo's comments I would fix the color cast. Looks a bit "yeller" to me.

Looking forward to seeing more of your work!

Andy · March 31, 2005

welcome to dgrin

! heheh i like angelo's comment - congrats on your "de-lurking"

i hope that more folks "de-lurk" now! i'm sure your friend will love this pic -and it probably works well as a series from the evening's events

looking forward to more from you,

rutt · March 31, 2005

This is a very common problem. Maybe there is already a tutorial on this. If not, may I use this example in one?

Anyway the quickest fix would be if you shot it RAW. Then just change "As Shot" to "Tungsten" in the raw converter and you'll be on the right planet after conversion.

Assuming you didn't shoot in RAW, you can easily fix with LAB curves. Here is my edit of your image:

Here are the LAB curves that I used to get there:

I've put the actual curves (which you can load into the curves dialog in PS) here

AlexIs · April 1, 2005

Thanks everybody for the words! This really gets me started!

Rutt, I will try the conversion!

AlexIs · April 4, 2005

My friend was happy with this version, although he is still suffering from extreme shadows around his eyes...

I went through the exif, and I noticed I did not use flash for this picture.

Hello there

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