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Do I saturate/vibrate my pictures too much? I'd love to hear your advice!
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<blockquote data-quote="Macaflan" data-source="post: 796282" data-attributes="member: 83938"><p>Well, it all comes to what you like. You are going to get the phone book of responses with "do I do this too much...."</p><p></p><p>There are colors that look realistic and those that don't. Most photography that has won awards, etc... has made a statement either by subject, or the way the subject is portrayed with the use of light and color. BW photography is all about the light and the subject; color photography has a bit more to do with light and color than the subject.</p><p></p><p>You appear to enjoy the look of a bit unrealistic saturation of color, but sometimes in real life, this exists, just not usually with so many different elements to a photo.</p><p></p><p>Here are some guidelines to go by:</p><p></p><p>The human eye moves this way:</p><p>1) B&W to color</p><p>2) dark to light</p><p>3) blurry to defined/sharp</p><p>4) dull/washed out to contrast</p><p></p><p>With this in mind, you may be able to direct those in your photos to your main subject a bit better by making the key element of your photo just the way you like it (i.e. turbo charged sat and vib), then mask in photoshop those other elements (such as the crowd of visitors) to reduce the sat and vib on them by 50%.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This will probably raise the hairs from some that have photography degrees, but this is what I have observed from those photos people would pay thousands for.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Macaflan, post: 796282, member: 83938"] Well, it all comes to what you like. You are going to get the phone book of responses with "do I do this too much...." There are colors that look realistic and those that don't. Most photography that has won awards, etc... has made a statement either by subject, or the way the subject is portrayed with the use of light and color. BW photography is all about the light and the subject; color photography has a bit more to do with light and color than the subject. You appear to enjoy the look of a bit unrealistic saturation of color, but sometimes in real life, this exists, just not usually with so many different elements to a photo. Here are some guidelines to go by: The human eye moves this way: 1) B&W to color 2) dark to light 3) blurry to defined/sharp 4) dull/washed out to contrast With this in mind, you may be able to direct those in your photos to your main subject a bit better by making the key element of your photo just the way you like it (i.e. turbo charged sat and vib), then mask in photoshop those other elements (such as the crowd of visitors) to reduce the sat and vib on them by 50%. This will probably raise the hairs from some that have photography degrees, but this is what I have observed from those photos people would pay thousands for. [/QUOTE]
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