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Hot or Not?

Postby wendellt on Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:31 pm

i shot this fashion show in JPEG as usual
and it's the first time i have experienced harsh highlights with a overbearing reddish cast, colour balance set to 3000 Kelvin, no flash the spot was halogen

close to original tone, shooting at 1/400, dark image but the highlights are so bright they are blown, guess theres no way to have compensated
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these ones i fixed i de-saturated the red channel abit, lightened it up, but now there are pink tones, is it possible to fix this?
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this one is less desaturated and slightly darker
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so are they hot or not?
talking about the highlights, not the girls
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Postby Oneputt on Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:39 pm

No image Wendell :lol:
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Postby Alpha_7 on Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:07 pm

I fear I must of missed you invite to this party Wendell, some very pretty girls.
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Postby Alex on Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:23 pm

Wendell,

Great images. I would not change much. If you want to try and remove casts, I'd go into LAB and play with "a" and "b" chanels to taste.

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Postby blacknstormy on Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:46 pm

Wendell - I think these are the first shots of yours I haven't liked :( Yes there are hot spots, but for some obsure reason, they work with the shot .. but the harsh shadows, and the wind causing the girls to close their eyes must make it bloody hard to get a good shot !!
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Postby drifter on Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:47 pm

Great shots . The colour in the second one looks nice .Better than the the other two . Comp wise i like the first two .

OK i give up . What are they selling ?
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Postby rokkstar on Sun Jul 02, 2006 8:58 pm

Alpha_7 wrote:I fear I must of missed you invite to this party Wendell, some very pretty girls.
 LOL, yeah, mine went astray too!!
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Postby birddog114 on Sun Jul 02, 2006 9:53 pm

No hot! I'm cold :roll:
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Postby Manta on Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:02 pm

It's getting very warm in here......
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Postby Willy wombat on Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:07 pm

Dang!

Like Something from a dream!
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Postby Big Red on Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:39 pm

well the girls are hot 8)

i like the first one as the skin tones are to my liking.
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Postby Matt. K on Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:56 pm

Wendell
These are very powerful pictures and well photographed. I love the tight composition and POV. What bar do you drink in? :shock: :shock:
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Postby beetleboy on Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:28 am

Blown highlights are so under-rated!
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