{"id":19617,"date":"2013-12-01T20:42:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T12:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=19617"},"modified":"2018-04-03T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:53:12","slug":"image-corrections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2013\/12\/01\/image-corrections\/","title":{"rendered":"Image Corrections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back several years ago when I had the Nikon D300, I shot in RAW almost exclusively. A lot of picture-taking back then was at travel, landscape sights and the like – and the pictures typically had wide dynamic ranges which required post-processing work to lift out details that would had been lost if I’d shot in JPG. I’ve done a post here before<\/a> on what image editing tools can do to retrieve detail. Since our two children though, I’ve found myself shooting in JPG modes more often, if for no other reason than that post-processing work with RAW images is just too time-consuming!<\/p>\n

More recently I’ve started returning back to shooting in RAW again on the E-M5 and E-PL6, and typically to compensate for oversights when fishing out the camera quickly to capture candid shots is more important than fiddling around with the camera’s settings to ensure I’ve configured it correctly. I’m not a Photoshop expert by any stretch of imagination, but the two pictures below again show how useful is it to shoot in RAW modes.<\/p>\n

The first pair of pictures below is of Hannah in an NTUC Fairprice trolley cart after dinner at Hougang One on Saturday evening. The rest of the images in the series were metered correctly, but the one below wasn’t for some reason. Possibly an E-M5 quirk. Hannah looked a little too tanned – she’s quite fair-skinned, and the aisle at the supermarket was quite brightly lit.<\/p>\n

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Source image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The image was corrected in Photoshop’s RAW editor, with basically just a +0.85 ev adjustment.<\/p>\n

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Hannah’s skin looks more like it now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another common correction I’ve been making is white balance. Color balance is typically very difficult to correct in JPG once the image is taken, and I’ve made it a habit to always shoot in RAW when I’m working in warm lighting (especially in restaurants), or in settings with presence of intense primary colors – a couple of the Minton pictures especially come to mind on this. I do have a White Balance card lying at the bottom of my camera bag to custom set WB, and there’s also the preadjusted temperature setting for warm lighting of around 3000K on the E-M5. Still; an example follows: below is a picture taken this morning over brunch at Swensen’s @ Compass Point.<\/p>\n

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Source image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ironically, the unaltered image above is a closer representation of the scene as seen in person – the lighting at Swensen’s is very warm. But it also gives both Ling and Peter overly intense skin colors. Adjusted image with corrections to exposure, tint and most importantly, temperature:<\/p>\n

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Looking much better now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unfortunately, every image has to be separately adjusted. Just too much work! Probably time for me to finally invest in an updated copy of Lightroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back several years ago when I had the Nikon D300, I shot in RAW almost exclusively. A lot of picture-taking back then was at travel, landscape sights and the like – and the pictures typically had wide dynamic ranges which<\/p>\n

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