All of my pool pictures turn out awful. Its forced me out of auto mode because on my no-flash auto setting the pictures have grossly distorted color hues leaning heavily to the blue side and are all over the spectrum in exposure - either way under or overexposed.

An examples:

Too dark, too blue. Blah. It doesn’t help that we tend to swim after dinner when it is pretty much full shade back there, too dark for low ISO settings which mean that often my pictures are pretty grainy to boot.

Here’s the post-processed true-to-life version:

I can get it the way I want it post-processed, more or less. But I want it more true to life SOOC. I’ve played around with the exposure compensation, the shutter speed, aperture, the white balance, etc. The one thing I haven’t done is try to manually set the hue adjustment to compensate. That seems a little drastic though.

Any ideas? Opinions?

Filed under Before & After, Post-Processing on May 25 | 4 comments

Recently I took this photo of Addison:

I really love the photo but the ugly BRIGHT orange cone jutting out from her shoulder was a LITTLE distracting to me.

I’ve noticed that often times I can salvage a photo like this without doing heavy photoshop work just by converting it to black and white. Suddenly, the orange photo isn’t so obtrusive and distracting at all:

Filed under Addison, Before & After, Black & Whites, Dalton, Noah on May 17 | 2 comments