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03/23/2004 07:24:37 PM · #1 |
My off screen expectation shot: was from a play. I am selling prints from the shoot. The woman in charge of the production was very picky about what she wanted the photos to look like and I'm getting the feeling that my shots aren't pleasing her mainly because she is used to traditional film images. For this reason, she requested only black and whites. I had a lot of photos to edit for the contact sheets so I quickly made them all black and white planning on doing a better job of it after people had told me which photos they were interested in. The problem I have now is that the computer the original color files were on has crashed so I only have my black and whites to work with. I'm hoping some of you wonderfully talented DPCers will be able to share with me some ps techniques that can help me achieve the look and feel of film as well as other ways to improve these shots to make them as professional as possible. It was a tough shooting situation, low light, a lot of movement, no prior information about the play and no stopping the play to have the actors pose. All in all I am surprised the shots came out as well as they did. Here are two shots from the shoot that I would absolutely love people to play with and give me some ideas. Thanks!
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03/23/2004 07:34:09 PM · #2 |
Jason,
I applied the "film" filter to the shot and put it in my portfolio (if you can help me to pull it into the thread I'll do that"
Grain=1, Highlight=1, Intensity=1
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03/23/2004 07:41:45 PM · #3 |
| thanks admart. I'm looking for a someone more pronounced change than simply adding grain though. Perhaps some dodging and burning. Unfortunately, I know very little about where I should be dodging and burning.... |
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03/23/2004 07:42:48 PM · #4 |
Did you tell her they were digital? I bet she would not know the difference from a print if she didn't know to start with.
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03/23/2004 07:58:34 PM · #5 |
| She found out they were digital when I gave her my contact sheets and had do discuss how they get printed. I agree that she wouldn't have known the difference. She's very opinionated and getting pretty tough to deal with. She seems to know exactly what the photos are supposed to look like. I almost wish she had just taken them herself. I gave her 46 shots to choose from and she asked me if that was all there was as if someone shooting film would have given her even close to that many. |
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03/23/2004 08:02:31 PM · #6 |
Hi Jason, I just looked in Adobe Studio Exchange and found an action for converting to b & white. I just tried it and it's really nice. I will email you the action.
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03/23/2004 08:18:07 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by JasonPR:
She found out they were digital when I gave her my contact sheets and had do discuss how they get printed. I agree that she wouldn't have known the difference. She's very opinionated and getting pretty tough to deal with. She seems to know exactly what the photos are supposed to look like. I almost wish she had just taken them herself. I gave her 46 shots to choose from and she asked me if that was all there was as if someone shooting film would have given her even close to that many. |
Hey Jason,
The production stills look great as is. Unless you are under contract with this woman I would give her the option of "take it or leave it". You can't please everyone all the time and life is to short to start trying. Best of luck to you :) |
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03/23/2004 08:30:29 PM · #8 |
I also think yours look pretty good as is. Maybe just boost contrast a little.
edit...I removed mine as it hardly looked any different than yours.
Message edited by author 2004-03-23 20:33:04. |
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03/23/2004 09:32:52 PM · #9 |
"Customers from Hell" are unfortunately all too common, and yet are part of dealing with the public. I think your photographs are excellent. Too bad some people have a hang up with the capture method. You'll probably find out that they are mostly people who think digital is only good for emailing images.
The person who runs my local camera club has a nasty habit of saying "well, you can't do that (long exposures, different settings, etc.) with digital, but you can do it with an SLR" HUMPF! But, I bite my tongue and let the images speak for themselves.
Good luck, Jason. I know this post probably doesn't help, but I had to put in my 2 cents to sort of commisserate with you.
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03/23/2004 10:39:16 PM · #10 |
Hello,
Do you convert the files by using channels (in photoshop) instead of grayscale or desaturate? This will allow you to adjust the RGB levels and is a much cleaner method than the other two mentioned in my opinion. Also, try out the levels to adjust tonality. Than again, you may already be working in this mode.
Keep working on them, I'm shooting with digital and enjoying the b&w aspect of digital but like you wanting to have the same end point as film would show.
Kristy |
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