I had an idea. Not sure if you guys will think it's a good one or not, but I kinda like it so I'll explain and you can let me know.
[B]Idea:[/B]
I see plenty of people post reasonable photographs on their photography pages on Facebook. They'd often be excellent pictures if it wasn't for the complete lack of understanding when it comes to post processing. I've often tried to give constructive criticism to these people to try and help them to improve their editing. Usually this ends in a massive argument with them and all their friends who have no idea about post processing.
Instead, why don't we - as people who have a bit more understanding of these things, rescue their photographs from the horror of HDR and bad processing?
Now I'm not saying my editing is perfect, but I feel that I can do a lot better than some of the stuff I see on my facebook.
Remember though, I'm not looking for outright bad photos, just ones which are lacking, or badly edited and could be fixed with a bit of photoshop expertise.
[B]What to do:[/B]
If you're up for trying this out, here's what to do.
1. Find a badly processed/cropped/framed photo on facebook. I've found that great places to find these are Urban Explorers' facebook pages. Sadly most of the stuff I see from explorers seems to be unnecessarily plastered with HDR.
2. Open the photograph in photoshop, lightroom or whatever you want as long as you think you can do the job with it.
3. Fix it! Make it look how you think it should have looked if done properly in the first place. Obviously this can be difficult with JPGs and I'm not expecting to see works of art here, just improvements.
4. Resize the image to 1024 wide maximum (including the original) and post both in this thread so we can see the vast improvement.
[B]Remember[/B], if the photographs are watermarked, try to leave the watermark in tact. We don't want to seem like we're ripping these people off and stealing their work. If you have to crop a watermark out, either replace it or something similar elsewhere in the image or post the credit for the original work alongside your post in this thread.
If one of these photographers finds this thread, they may actually see what we've done and realise we've actually improved their work and take our edits into account - possibly helping them to improve (which is all good as far as I'm concerned). On the other hand they may get into a bad mood and start flaming us! Of course if they want us to take the photographs down, we should do this as a matter of courtesy.
[B]Examples:[/B]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/PRa94qQ.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/4ya1AVY.jpg[/IMG]
In this one there was unnecessary and badly done HDR. I've tried to counter the effects of this. I've also straightened the picture slightly and cropped it so the girl isn't in the dead centre.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Y23nPiG.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/xEVHcTJ.jpg[/IMG]
Straightened the bad framing which meant I had to crop it more than I'd have wanted to. Tried to restore depth which was lost through the bad HDR. I actually don't like the result I've got with this one but it's only a quick example.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/7z0wCpx.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/NHzWnQ8.jpg[/IMG]
Another HDR rescue
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/IVkJS6D.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/pRJAkJs.jpg[/IMG]
HDR
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jr4GRTD.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/IdH3m84.jpg[/IMG]
More HDR
tbh, most of these photos are horribly beyond repair
Facebook compression doesn't help. I'll have a look around other sources.
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