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Old 11-18-2013, 05:40 PM
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Lol thanks. I have the lights off in the room so that helps gives some corals the black background. Otherwise I think it's shooting with F22 that squeezes the light out of the background of shots where there is stuff behind the corals. I don't really know much about my camera or the terminology.

You'd laugh if you saw my 'workflow'.

1. shoot a metric butt-tonne of photos
2. toggle between them and pick the best one for each shot. mostly check and pray one is mostly in focus
3. open in photoshop and do the following to every one:

3a. auto colour
3b. auto contrast
3c. auto tone

photoshop allows you to fade from 0 - 100% the effect of each of these. sometimes a command totally messes with the shot and you don't apply it at all.

3d. sharpen
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Old 11-18-2013, 05:50 PM
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Words of a wise man. I am going home straight after work, and going to do the "workflow".

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Lol thanks. I have the lights off in the room so that helps gives some corals the black background. Otherwise I think it's shooting with F22 that squeezes the light out of the background of shots where there is stuff behind the corals. I don't really know much about my camera or the terminology.

You'd laugh if you saw my 'workflow'.

1. shoot a metric butt-tonne of photos
2. toggle between them and pick the best one for each shot. mostly check and pray one is mostly in focus
3. open in photoshop and do the following to every one:

3a. auto colour
3b. auto contrast
3c. auto tone

photoshop allows you to fade from 0 - 100% the effect of each of these. sometimes a command totally messes with the shot and you don't apply it at all.

3d. sharpen
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Old 11-18-2013, 11:38 PM
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Hot diggity I should have had your bring your camera to my house! My photography skills are only slightly better than an 9 month old chewing on a camera.
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Crazy awesome photos Brett! You make me want to go out and buy a real camera instead of my point and shoot garb...
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Hot diggity I should have had your bring your camera to my house! My photography skills are only slightly better than an 9 month old chewing on a camera.
Thx man. I'd be happy to take a few pics provided you don't take the glue out again lol.

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Crazy awesome photos Brett! You make me want to go out and buy a real camera instead of my point and shoot garb...
Thx the more I use the silly macro lens the more I wished I could afford to own one!
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