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Yes, the cheeks were very rosy due to the 100 degree heat that day. In the time since I uploaded that file, I did the same WB adjustment off the white in the dress and the results were better. No, the light is not good. the image is terribly underexposed. Playing around with the exposure and Mr. Fill Light helps. Should I back off the red saturation or other areas?

[CPowers]

maybe this works?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tyrjujn5yw9os7q/_EFP0074.NEF

[CPowers]

My site wont take a RAW. If your comfortable with it I can email you a dropbox link.

[CPowers]

@Worst Case, that image was actually shot in Jpg and was done on an old monitor well before I started shooting everything in RAW. All of Riley’s shoot is RAW, would you like to look at one of those?

[CPowers]

I’d be happy to upload a RAW, just pick a file. I’m using a ASUS VS247 monitor. I really like it but I have done no calibration on it. The magenta looks really hot in those newer images. Some have a reto skin tone but it was 100 degrees that day and we were sweating to death, that may be where the red was coming from.

[CPowers]

I’m not sure what you mean by calibrated monitor setup. I have run prints to compare to my monitor. But otherwise no other calibration has been done.

[CPowers]

I came here to get better, learn from my mistakes and get honest criticism. It would have been disingenuous of me to ask for critique only to get pissed when I didn’t hear what I wanted to hear. Those people need to stick to asking their mommies for their opinion. Thanks folks.

On the subject of the vignettes, I have been doing them in LR. Is there a significant benefit to doing them in PS?

[CPowers]

The child from that gallery was extremely uncooperative so I did my best to play with her and keep her happy and shoot what I could get. She was soooo active (rolling on the ground, playing in the dirt and running around) I could not set up any strobes to try different lighting with my strobes. So I had to improvise with a single strobe on a paint pole. It was the most challenging subject I’ve had yet. There is a lot of smoothing on her face to get rid of the dirt and drool And boogers! But yes, I totally see what you mean.

[CPowers]

I shoot everything in RAW so I do have all the originals. I’m currently using LR3.

Take a look at this gallery.  Its a client I did last Sunday. I would like some feedback on these some more recent shots.

http://crash1976.smugmug.com/Clients/Russell password: riley

Is this moving in the right direction? There is still one or two in there with that odd coloring that is inconsistent with the rest I know.

That wedding gallery of mine is just plain awful. The other stuff you guys have pointed out are all fair criticizims.

 

This weekend, I’m going to take a long hard look at all this stuff I’ve put out there, most of it just needs to go I suppose.

[CPowers]

There is no denying you guys are right. It’s hard to hear but it’s good for me. Hurts, but hurts good. What makes it all worse is that all this is stuff I already know but have been in denial about. I KNOW the selective coloring is cliche and BLAH and just plain BAD! I knew my white vignettes would get slaughtered… as they should. My colors are way saturated and just plain odd.

One very small thing I would say in my defense. The wedding gallery is my oldest gallery and the one I dug the deepest to fill and as you have pointed out it is painfully obvious. People have actually looked at that crap and hired me. You see what I mean. Something has to change, What are the things I’m doing well that I can build off of? I need a ground up rebuild.

[CPowers]

Here is a link to a Fickr critique set I put together.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59904248@N07/sets/72157634675000849/

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