Christine, Nice work and a happy looking cast! The color is a tiny bit warm, but appropriately theatrical. You could tone it down or leave it as is. I can't vouch for Stan's numbers, but his sentiment is right. You pulled it off quite nicely. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > I pulled hayfever_109 into LR3.0 and fiddled with the sliders a bit. > What looks right to me on my laptop would be very subtly different: > temp = -7 from original > exposure = + .10 from original > saturation = - 2 from original > > I was going by flesh-tone appearance more than anything else, with secondary > attention to the overall feel of the scene. > > At first I played with the tint as well, -5 to -10 seemed to help, but > dropping the saturation just a touch seemed to obviate the need for the > change in tint. > > Bottom line: for my money you are pretty much spot on. There will always be > variation in appearance according to the color of the light under which any > prints are viewed; I am not sure that this sort of subtle manipulation is > really called for. But to double check you might try viewing your contact > sheet outside under daylight conditions as well as indoors under artificial > lighting. If you still think they look too warm or too red, then apply the > (minor) general changes I and others have suggested. > > BTW, I think you pulled this off quite nicely. > > stan > > On Jul 31, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: > >> Hi Everyone: Not having much stage and theater experience, I was wondering >> if those folks who do, would be willing to check & see if the white balance >> is acceptable in the small gallery below. Metadata--including white balance >> and tint--is below each photo. I just printed page 1 of the contact sheets >> (in speed mode), and it prints just a hint more red than my monitor is >> showing, so I thought I'd throw this out there for feedback. >> >> http://www.caguila.com/caguila/hayfever/index.html >> >> Cheers, Christine >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
