Old Radios Exhibition. Want it to POP! HELP!

[unique one]

HELP! Here are a few photographs of a radio exhibition that I took. I really wanna get one of them to standout because only one will be published in a newspaper this upcoming Wednesday. I keep wanting to work with the first one. Any suggestions on how I can post process to really get this thing to POP?

[dlambert]

Great question. I did a quick search for this, and was surprised not to turn up a lot of results, but one of the things I did see is that newspapers are quite likely to ask for your RAW image for any journalistic subject to help guard against photoshopping. Other than that, I'd maybe look at bumping up contrast, and maybe boosting shadows a bit. I expect that you're going to see a whole lot less dynamic range in a newspaper print, so subtle shades in your photo could be lost.

[zona5101]

The last one? I think the first one is the one you want as it clearly shows radios. The last one, you would want to crop out the window...but even then if you look at the image a viewed can not readily tell what the image is about...

[unique one]

Originally Posted by dlambert

Great question. I did a quick search for this, and was surprised not to turn up a lot of results, but one of the things I did see is that newspapers are quite likely to ask for your RAW image for any journalistic subject to help guard against photoshopping. Other than that, I'd maybe look at bumping up contrast, and maybe boosting shadows a bit. I expect that you're going to see a whole lot less dynamic range in a newspaper print, so subtle shades in your photo could be lost.

I asked them what format they used before I got myself an internship there and they said they shot in JPEG. I had to let them know it was all about RAW! Thanks for your help!

[unique one]

Originally Posted by zona5101

The last one? I think the first one is the one you want as it clearly shows radios. The last one, you would want to crop out the window...but even then if you look at the image a viewed can not readily tell what the image is about...

I don't know why I put last. It's suppose to say first.

[zona5101]

I don't know what post software you have but I think I would increase the red saturation a bit and deeping the wall color. I would crop it tighter, the carpet on the lower left and the upper wall at the top is dead space - i'd probably start the crop right above the megaphone then go down and left to the desired aspect ratio. You can also sharpening it a bunch, it won't hurt, maybe slide the black point up to give it a bit more contrast.

[unique one]

And they want me to photograph a girls basketball game today in about 3 and a half hours. I never photographed a basketball game

[unique one]

Originally Posted by zona5101

I don't know what post software you have but I think I would increase the red saturation a bit and deeping the wall color. I would crop it tighter, the carpet on the lower left and the upper wall at the top is dead space - i'd probably start the crop right above the megaphone then go down and left to the desired aspect ratio. You can also sharpening it a bunch, it won't hurt, maybe slide the black point up to give it a bit more contrast.

I turned in the this photograph^^^
It was the one they wanted to go with plus the first one