getting photos as beautiful as after processing

[carinlynchin]

Hi, I am learning....that being said, I have two pictures to show here. One I kept because I loved it but I didn't realize how much I loved it until I played with it in GIMP and now I REALLY love it. My question is this. Is there a way to take the same picture but in the beauty shown in post processing (saturation)??

[zona5101]

some cameras have selectable bias for color like "vivid" or "b&w" etc. So you maybe able to make an interanl selection. How much it biases the picture and whether it is what you want is unknown. I am not sure if any camras have built in vignette:..
In any case, I think that many people would argue that you should do your color corrections, vignettes, crops etc outside of the camera in post processing.

[edbayani]

if you want to do this on camera as a challenge, you can do this several ways. in canon, you can set the picture style, in picture style, you can adjust the sharpness, contrast, saturation and color tone. you can do this by trial and error. or you can use the customized white balance correction to a warmer balance. the vignetting can be achieved by putting a black paper with a hole in front of the lens. another easier way would be to put a cokin warming filter with the black mask in front of the lens. this was done before by photographers during the 'film' days/

[mimiya]

What has been suggested...changing camera settings, etc. is just another way of 'processing' the picture. It's changing the original photo. Which in my opinion is just fine.

Personally I would rather have more control over those changes - i.e. do them after the shoot in software such as you did. Beautiful shot!!

[carinlynchin]

Okay, well thankyou guys so much because I honestly feel bad when I edit becuase I feel like I just don't have the "talent" to do the picture without having to edit....as if editing was "cheating" so to speak. But if all pro's do editing anyway, then I guess I have nothing to feel bad about...am I correct?

[willbrawn]

Great post work btw, if I found out a faster way to edit photos in camera I would be doing it. There are post production programs for a reason, check out Lightroom 2 to do editing and do it a bit faster than photoshop.

[zona5101]

Originally Posted by carinlynchin

Okay, well thankyou guys so much because I honestly feel bad when I edit becuase I feel like I just don't have the "talent" to do the picture without having to edit....as if editing was "cheating" so to speak. But if all pro's do editing anyway, then I guess I have nothing to feel bad about...am I correct?

I'd be curious where the notion that editing/processing images was somehow bad or cheating. We all did virtually the same manipulations in the darkroom. The only thing is now it is much easier, trial and error takes seconds to rework, and your fingers don't smell like fixer

[mimiya]

Originally Posted by zona5101

and your fingers don't smell like fixer

Ha! Love this!

[carinlynchin]

I guess where I started out liking photography while digital cameras have been around, I just assumed that prior to that the film photographers where just that good. Like when you saw work in magazines and all that, that those were just amazing photographers that knew their stuff and shot the photos and did no processing on them, I didn't know that they used to do the same things in a dark room...very interesting.

[zona5101]

Originally Posted by carinlynchin

I guess where I started out liking photography while digital cameras have been around, I just assumed that prior to that the film photographers where just that good. Like when you saw work in magazines and all that, that those were just amazing photographers that knew their stuff and shot the photos and did no processing on them, I didn't know that they used to do the same things in a dark room...very interesting.

To be clear, there is no substitue for getting the picture right in the camera (exposure, lighting, composition) - I don't mean to imply be a sloppy photographer and fix it in post. More like take your best photograph and make it better...