Please help understand how these images done.

[Partsrept]

Please help understand how these images done. They are so real. Black is black, red is super red, they are so "alive" and fresh. Below are 2 images: what does it take step by step to make them ?

Please explain every detail: why colors are so good, sky is pretty- and white, red is red, face color is right...etc.

[zona5101]

first you have to start out with a properly focused and properly exposed image that is well composed. From there some post processing to enhance the color and contrast. There are lots of tools/methods/software to do the enhancement so it would be impossible to know exactly what was done and in precisely what amount.

[Partsrept]

Originally Posted by zona5101

first you have to start out with a properly focused and properly exposed image that is well composed. From there some post processing to enhance the color and contrast. There are lots of tools/methods/software to do the enhancement so it would be impossible to know exactly what was done and in precisely what amount.

I know they do not have much time to retake them because all people are always so busy at weddings and you have little time only to take right shots.

I 100% sure those original images do not look good. Are you agree ?

"tools/methods/software to do the enhancement" - if we take a Photoshop, so they do all enhancements manually or use plugins, etc ? Defiantly you cannot use LR presets to have same images like those. Then what else ? My pictures does not matter how much time i spend with them DO NOT look nice like those.

Do you think they used any type of lights ?

"properly exposed image" - everything in those images right: no over or underexposed. Contrast is good. But how do you get those fresh colors is my main issue.

Example: if Photoshop if you use White Balance tool in Levels as soon as you click on black you do get better contrast because it darkens your image but by the time you click on white you get little light back BUT image is still kind of dark and not "alive" anymore because you have some under or over exposed places. To add more light -even make it more look bad .

I am lost. HELP

[Photologyst]

IMHO, I don’t know if those photos are all that fabulous. The skies look blown on my monitor. The composition is just OK.

It should be very easy to adjust these in LR. I see nothing that requires Photoshop, unless one wants to soften the faces, blur backgrounds, etc.

Why don’t you post some SOC photos and we can adjust for you?

[Partsrept]

Originally Posted by Photologyst

IMHO, I don’t know if those photos are all that fabulous. The skies look blown on my monitor. The composition is just OK.

It should be very easy to adjust these in LR. I see nothing that requires Photoshop, unless one wants to soften the faces, blur backgrounds, etc.

Why don’t you post some SOC photos and we can adjust for you?

ok, i will post something shortly to see what you can do so i can learn.

[Partsrept]

Originally Posted by Photologyst

IMHO, I don’t know if those photos are all that fabulous. The skies look blown on my monitor. The composition is just OK.

It should be very easy to adjust these in LR. I see nothing that requires Photoshop, unless one wants to soften the faces, blur backgrounds, etc.

Why don’t you post some SOC photos and we can adjust for you?

I found very bad image and you see everything has problem. Try to fix colors, WB and contrast.

[Partsrept]

Originally Posted by Partsrept

ok, i will post something shortly to see what you can do so i can learn.

I will be very thankful if you can post something straight from your camera and then post one you post processed.

[zona5101]

Originally Posted by Partsrept

1) - if we take a Photoshop, so they do all enhancements manually or use plugins, etc ?

2) Defiantly you cannot use LR presets to have same images like those. T

3) Do you think they used any type of lights ?

4) But how do you get those fresh colors is my main issue.
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I enumerated them to try and make it easier for a reply...
1) If you have a plug in or an action that works then sure you can and most people have favorite actions they apply.

2) I disagree, for these examples everything could be done in LR easily...and in lightroom you can copy the adjustments in one image and apply them to another image with one mouse click

3) It doesn't appear that they did...but if you're really good with balanced fill flash then making it look like you didn't use flash is the goal

4) lots of tools, vibrance, saturation, color specific adjustments.

[Partsrept]

Originally Posted by zona5101

I enumerated them to try and make it easier for a reply...
1) If you have a plug in or an action that works then sure you can and most people have favorite actions they apply.

2) I disagree, for these examples everything could be done in LR easily...and in lightroom you can copy the adjustments in one image and apply them to another image with one mouse click

3) It doesn't appear that they did...but if you're really good with balanced fill flash then making it look like you didn't use flash is the goal

4) lots of tools, vibrance, saturation, color specific adjustments.

Please, can you post something straight from your camera and then post one you post processed ?
Also there are are more of those images at Fresno Photographer Mariano Friginal, Fresno Wedding Photography & Portrait Photography

there is a difference between good nonprofessional picture and his pictures - they pop up, why ????

[zona5101]

ok sooc:

after crop & post processing...