{"id":31850,"date":"2019-12-30T07:58:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T23:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=31850"},"modified":"2019-12-31T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T03:11:07","slug":"15-days-in-kanagawa-hokkaido-post-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2019\/12\/30\/15-days-in-kanagawa-hokkaido-post-processing\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Days in Kanagawa &#038; Hokkaido \u2013 Post-Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The singularly largest difference between the kind of pictures I took in the September trip against this December one was that a lot of pictures would see backdrops that are in snow. I severely underestimated the amount of exposure compensation needed in a winter shoot like this, so a number of outdoor pictures before Day 09 were routinely underexposed, requiring a good amount of fixing in post-processing. Here&#8217;s a bunch of examples of adjustments I made this trip after each day&#8217;s itinerary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sample #1 at Winter Illumination @ Shinjuku Terrace City (Day 01)<\/strong>: 1\/125s, f4, ISO5000, 24mm (FE24-105mm f4). Adjustments were Exposure +0.45EV, Contrast +7, Highlights -35, Shadows +49, Whites +63. The actual scene was fairly dark, despite the number of tiny LED lights mounted on the trees, so quite a few adjustments were needed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"twenty20-1\" class=\"twenty20\" style=\"width: 100% !important; clear: both;\"><div class=\"twentytwenty-container twenty20-1 \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01000-shinjuku-1.jpg\" alt=\"Before image\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-01-A7_01000-shinjuku-2.jpg\" alt=\"After image\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sample #2 at Omiya Rilway Museum (Day 03)<\/strong>: 1\/125s, f4, ISO6400, 27mm (FE24-105mm f4). Adjustments were Exposure +0.56 EV, Highlights -64, Shadows +22. The &#8216;Rolling Stock Station&#8217; is reasonably lit for a hall of this size, so just some minor adjustments.<\/p>\n<div id=\"twenty20-2\" class=\"twenty20\" style=\"width: 100% !important; clear: both;\"><div class=\"twentytwenty-container twenty20-2 \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-03-A7_01739-Railway-Museum-1.jpg\" alt=\"Before image\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-03-A7_01739-Railway-Museum-2.jpg\" alt=\"After image\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sample #3 at Shinjuku Gyoen (Day 03)<\/strong>: 1\/125s, f4, ISO100, 26mm (FE24-105mm f4). Adjustments were Exposure +0.91EV, Contrast +11, Highlights -34, Shadows +17, Vibrance +12, Saturation +12, Dehaze +15. This was shot in the mid-afternoon where light was already starting to go out for the day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"twenty20-3\" class=\"twenty20\" style=\"width: 100% !important; clear: both;\"><div class=\"twentytwenty-container twenty20-3 \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-03-A7_01853-Shinjuku-Gyoen-1.jpg\" alt=\"Before image\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-03-A7_01853-Shinjuku-Gyoen-2.jpg\" alt=\"After image\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sample #4 at Otaki Rest Stop (Day 08)<\/strong>: 1\/1250s, f2.8, ISO100, 28mm (Tamron 28-75mm f2.8). Adjustments were Exposure +0.76EV, Highlights -41, Shadows +73, Whites +17, Dehaze +15. Big adjustments in post-processing here, as the white snow overwhelmed the A73&#8217;s metering.<\/p>\n<div id=\"twenty20-4\" class=\"twenty20\" style=\"width: 100% !important; clear: both;\"><div class=\"twentytwenty-container twenty20-4 \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-08-A7_04264-day-tour-Mushroom-Kingdom-Otaki-rest-stop-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Before image\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-08-A7_04264-day-tour-Mushroom-Kingdom-Otaki-rest-stop-2.jpg\" alt=\"After image\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sample #5 at Mt. Hakodate (Day 12):<\/strong> 1\/30s, f2.8, ISO3200, 41mm (Tamron 28-75mm f2.8). Adjustments were Exposure +0.20EV, Highlights -32, Shadows +89, Whites +49, Clarity +5, Dehaze +5. The city in the original version already shows how much of a twinkling light city Hakodate is at night. The adjustments basically beefed that up.<\/p>\n<div id=\"twenty20-5\" class=\"twenty20\" style=\"width: 100% !important; clear: both;\"><div class=\"twentytwenty-container twenty20-5 \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-12-A7_06313-hakodate-1.jpg\" alt=\"Before image\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-2019-japan-kanagawa-hokkaido-day-12-A7_06313-hakodate-2.jpg\" alt=\"After image\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The last post in this series &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2019\/12\/31\/15-days-in-kanagawa-hokkaido-final-notes\/\">final notes<\/a> on our 15 day trip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The singularly largest difference between the kind of pictures I took in the September trip against this December one was that a lot of pictures would see backdrops that are in snow. I severely underestimated the amount of exposure compensation<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2019\/12\/30\/15-days-in-kanagawa-hokkaido-post-processing\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  15 Days in Kanagawa &#038; Hokkaido \u2013 Post-Processing<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[662],"class_list":["post-31850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography-cameras","tag-kanagawa-hokkaido-japan-2019","wpcat-13-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/blog-japan-dec-lightroom.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}