Enhancing your photos

[Palmtrees11]

Evening all, it's a random question. But I was wondering how many of you enhance or filter your photos?

Cheers

H

 

[jsp77]

Evening Palmtrees, my photos are straight off the camera, what you see is what you get.

 

[Palmtrees11]

How do! That's what I do too, I may lighten a bit or change to black and white. But 99% of the time it's the same as you. I'm just wondering/being nosey

 

[rockfordstone]

i tend to run mine through light room just to tart them up a bit, but i don't go over the top of have pre-set filters or anything

 

[Dirus_Strictus]

Obviously you can do what you want with your photographs, but as an ex forensic photographer / interpreter I do find some of the 'renditions' spoil / hide the story the photographs tell me. Perhaps if people included an unaltered exterior and best interior? Good, thoughtful images tell the story of the place you are exploring and obviously true to life images will give a lasting memory of the place. Photographs tend to last, looking back on what I have looked over in my lifetime, man made structures do not. Mother Nature or Human intervention soon removes or hides (quite quickly in some cases) these places from all but the most observant of us.

 

[ReverendJT]

My processing varies depending on what I have taken but I tend to make the decision as to how I will edit in the field. Any composition with a high range of brightness gets HDR treatment, where bracketed shots are taken to capture the whole spectrum, then combined using HDR Merge in Lightroom, then reimported. With these, and single exposures, I then adjust clarity / vibrance / shadows / highlights / temp / chom. aberration reduced / spots corrected, straightened then exported. It's important that you get the exposure right in camera, as you will find noise is introduced when brightening dark areas of an image.

This may be over the top for some peoples tastes, however I think taking time in post can really enhance your images.

 

[Mikeymutt]

I put my hands up.I am guilty of processing my pics.not to everyone's tastes I know.buy I like my style.I do like to see a variety of styles.be boring if every photo was the same.I would never knock anyone's style.it's unique to them.I have never used lightroom or photoshop

 

[Palmtrees11]

Cheers for all your comments, I was interested as I don't really do anything with mine. It's always good to know what people use for theirs