Post procession
I see so many beautiful images on Tookapic each and every day, especially in the weekly themes. I am wondering how many of our group routinely use post processing before posting. Most of my images are pretty much straight from the camera with a little tweek here or there. If you do edit before posting what do you use and how much do you allow yourself to change the image. Thanks for your thoughts.
jazzie I process all of my pics, 99% using lightroom. Some only a little bit (I take the pics in RAW, so I have to, otherwise they look duller than in the camera when I took them), i.e. tonal value, white balance, most of the time clarity and dynamic. My aim is to make them look like I remember having seen the scene. And then there are some more experimentally, obviously processed pics, like in this 're-colored' series: tookapic.com/galleries/2849-re...
Phillip Flores I always do post processing of my photos using Luminar. I adjust the colours, shadows, whites slightly and oftentimes crop them to 9:16 size.
Jennifer I usually do a bit of light post, unless I'm tired and lazy and throw it up SOOC 😉 Or those rare occasions where it just feels perfect as-is
Marta Tomaszewska My photos almost always go trough Lightroom. Sometimes the effect is quite far from the origin, sometimes editing is almost invisible. Depends on my mood and some other factors. I don't affect my photos in the way of combining 2 different frames, changing content or so on, but enhancing light and dynamic range is ok for me.
Rafal
If you were taking photos with an analog camera you always processed pictures using chemical process in the lab, imagine digital photos straight from the camera as negatives (NEF, DNG, CR2) which should be processed...almost all my photos goes into that process - mostly through Lightroom (if they are taken from DSLR or compact camera or go pro camera) because they are RAW files which need to simply prepared (croping, contrast, saturation, basic procedures, cleaning dirt, etc) or some basic postprocessing in the smartphone using programmes attached to the mobile camera devices. I am not using Photoshop (simply I don't know how to operate there, and for my work Lightroom is enough). I don't feel comfortable seeing here pictures prepared as a photomanipulation (it is some sort of a cheating other people here on Tookapic).
You can always try to take a picture as good as it possible to reduce the post processing to very simple and basic procedures, but I think everybody use the post processing at this time
torero darktable - although what I do is not the best testimony for it ;) Anyway - it's a) powerful, b) free, c) functionally similar to Lightroom, d) multiplatform.
vera
I use post processing almost every day... and do it on my computer with lightroomCC. I always want to improve my photo. It is mainly useful for the contrasts of light. And I also like to touch everything to test, try and see... It's like a game or like painting my photo. I also like when my photo is sharp🧐. I also retouch the framing some times.. As @jazzie said, I shoot in RAW. However I don't like very much filters.
And finally, I also confess that I'm very proud when my photo doesn't need to be post processed...😋
Satoshi T I usually use Raw-file and process in Lightroom. -When using special effects that the camera has, it is JPEG-.
I mainly adjust the balance of light and the contrast in Lightroom. As @vera says, I also feel a little proud when I get a picture I don't need to adjust :)
Now I'm not good at Photoshop. I think Photoshop is a tool for combining multiple original photos and producing more creative effects. My goal is to use Photoshop according to my needs in the future.
Maciek Korsan All of my photos are going through lightroom (except the ones taken with an iPhone). editing process takes from 30 seconds to 30 minutes :D
Dave Fritz Thank you to everyone who has replied to my quarry. The images we share here are for the most part excellent. A great image is a process and the camera and its settings are only one part of the process. Thanks again.
Joe Fortin Every time... just about.
It's equal parts trying to learn the skill, wanting to make my end product better with a little bit of jealousy/competitiveness to present a _good photograph_.
One of the things I'd personally love to see is a comparison between the out-of-camera image and the post processed final product.
Robbie Colvin For this year, my fourth Tookapic project, I'm trying something different: getting the shot in-camera. That is, treating my digital camera like an analogue camera and setting the JPEG processing settings in my camera to emulate B&W film stock (namely high-contrast stock, like Ilford HP5 or something) as closely as possible. Also things like keeping tabs on the white balance as I'm not relying on the fact that I can change it later. It's been pretty hit and miss to be honest. I've wanted to keep editing to a minimum, and only doing some cropping and minor tweaks here and there. There's only a small handful of edited shots so far in this years project.
Earlier in the year, before the B&W idea started, I had been travelling a lot. Normally I'd use Lightroom CC, but I didn't have my laptop while travelling, so I started using Snapseed on my phone. Turns out it's better than the mobile version of Lightroom, especially when dealing with RAW files.
I shoot in RAW+JPEG mode, so I still have the unprocessed original version if I want to do something different with it later, but for this project I'm plugging my card reader directly into my phone and uploading the camera-processed JPEG version of the photo for the day.
Shawn I don't edit, except for sometimes a little crop or exposure adjustment. That is because I do not have a computer or a program of my own. I'd love to be able to do it. One day I hope to get really involved in digital photography and afford all of the technology I need.
jokele I always shoot in RAW, because it has a lot of potential. On the downside RAW is quite flat straight out of the camera, so it has to be developed. But one goal for my tookapic project was to improve my postprocessing skills. So I try different techniques and watch postprocessing tutorials. For me taking the photos is just the half way of fun. My most used tools are Lightroom an Photoshop with Lumenzia and somtimes NIK filters. I usually try to work out the lights, which already are in the photo, some color adjustments, whitebalance and sharpening of course.
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Lido At one time, the pictures evoked in the darkroom. In the digital age, we do the same on the computer.