The *Official Photography Thread*

Light room, I probably over edit the shit of them haha

 

Yeah, I develop everything with LR. I can't tell if the saturation is cranked up a little bit too much or the luminance is too high. They are great pictures but sometimes even I get carried away with the sliders. But over time I've learned LR and very fine adjustments is all you need to make a picture look like it hasn't been processed.

I shoot everything in RAW in a flat profile so I can bring all the information out of the picture. This is an example of trying to make it look exactly like it did while I was standing there taking the picture.

This picture is of the bridge that was featured in the movie Slingblade.

 

Part of the issue with his shots is the source material. The photos lack detail, textures are smeared, there's a lot of artifacts and aberrations. My guess is this is from a cell phone camera, or an old point and shoot. The sensor isn't very good. Starting with that, it's going to be hard to do any edits that really do much for the photos. This is one of those instances where equipment can make a huge difference in a shot. The shot of the dog isn't bad, and it shows behavior which is always good for animal shots, but there just isn't enough data to work with to produce a clean shot - which is probably why you are over-editing trying to get it to look better.

 

It’s a Sony A6000, probably more along the line if I have no idea how to use it

 

Are the photos heavily cropped? If not, then you must be shooting in the smallest JPG possible. Shoot in RAW

 

It’s in the raw setting, it’s probably because I’m too lazy to put them on the computer and just WiFi them to my phone

 

Oh yeah man, I think the WiFi only sends a small resolution JPG conversion...if it's like the Nikon software. It's ruining your photos

Probably look much better on a small phone screen though haha!

 

Most WiFi is dog slow hence the thumbnail. I never understood that. To me, WiFi on a camera body isn’t all that useful.

Years ago, I was a beta tester for a WiFi card. It moved data fairly well but still nowhere near even the slowest network card at the time.

 

Maybe some day I’ll throw everything onto pc, too bad i don’t have all my pictures over the last 10 years on a card somewhere

 

I think that the WiFi method is great for previews, and perhaps social media sharing, but that's about it. I don't know if it works while the camera is shooting - i.e. like time-lapse stuff, which it would also be nice to be able to follow along on your phone while your camera does its thing.

 

I dunno what 2M means

 

Most likely 2 Megapixels, which is really small.

 

I changed it to original

 

I don't know if that means original resolution and JPG or original as in RAW. If it's RAW, your phone may not read it. It will also transfer a lot slower and use up a lot more space on your phone.

 

Just gonna send it anyway, see how it goes

 

It should send a jpg. If shooting RAW you have to use the on camera RAW processor if available.

Just wifi'd one this morning and it was almost 14mb off a 21mp sensor. I only use this when quickly sharing to social media or sending to friends quickly.

 

I wouldn't go so far as to say you don't know how to use the camera, as you're getting good compositions, but something in your processing or capture settings looks really really off. It looks to me like you're heavily cropping to make up for a too-short of a lens (the 18-50 kit lens I presume?), possibly shooting at a much higher ISO than necessary (are you shooting on full auto?), then trying to work the hell out of a small jpeg file. You are definitely over-editing these.

Are you editing these on a phone or a computer with Lightroom? My iphone8 reads my Pentax's raw files, but Pentax uses DNG. I also usually send full size jpegs to the phone over wifi and do minor tweaks if I want something right now, and save editing RAW's for the computer to help speed up the transfer time.

Do you have any full size originals you can send?

 

The EyeFi card does not allow you to continue shooting while it’s downloading. At least it didn’t.

If you tether, you get updates.

 

Well, I'm thinking more of the in-camera WiFi these days.