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Editing Critique Part 4

before after, uh, I mean, okay, I understand. Probably didn't see it coming. I understand the crab. Sure, he looks orange to me on that screen. Yeah, and that's what they're saying to. So it's I mean, it's a little it's better. It's not quite there right before after touch Green touch green. Really nice on the clarity, though, looks good. Maybe a little much on the clarity. And you have to be careful when you start bringing in your clarity what you're touching with the clarity. Because if you look at this right here, where the light goes to dark, it goes light to crunchy when you start brushing clarity on them. That's why we use a clarity brush like a details brush when we do rings, because then you can just pinpoint the stone and not affect the background. Right. Still make a really like a ring that really, pops said. Not eight nights, just a little green. Let us know before after looks good. The vignette could be touch lighter. Yeah, because what you're getting, it's not really your ...

fault. Over the makers of this, you have to understand, is the roof of the covered bridges creating a shadow, and then you're adding the vignette, so it almost looks like a weird double vignette. So just be a little careful. But I actually think you did a good job on the at it. And I actually like the bright ning of the wood. Yeah. From the sort of money to the brighter that was very thick. Grass is a little unnatural, but it doesn't bother me that much. Yes, sir. Just looks like Ireland. I've learned from you guys and other really amazing post processing instructors here. Creative lives like the last thing you do, right before you're about export. It is just turned everything down that you processed by about 20%. Final step, you start going. Process looks good. All right, now turn it down and exported. Dial it down. You'll be happy right before after. It's not the same photo, but it is the same situation. Well, no, it's not. It's the girls got her head turned. Yeah, um, it's trying to add flash are tryingto lighten up something. There was a little dark, which I That doesn't bother me. I don't dislike. I don't just like it all things. Um, something's a little wrong here, though. It's like maybe you're missing a little bit of warmth that would make it look a little more realistic because it looks gonna pinky greeny. Yeah, and maybe it's the dresses in the grass like altogether, but maybe warm it a little, but it's definitely definitely an improvement. Improved it before I after C. I really don't like the direction that this person went in it much. You didn't need to like I was already on her face. You didn't have to destroy everything behind her to make me look at her because I already looked at her like I looked at her right at the very beginning of the image, You could have done a little subtle darkening. I feel like if you had taken this and then you had knocked it down to about like you took about 80% of that away, you would have had a much better effect, and I have a lot of problems with the retouching, so let's start with the lips. Look at her lips here, Look at her lips here. They don't look real. They don't look riel, and yet their eyes it on. But her eyes are retouched with kind of a sharp clarity, but her lips were retouched with like a liquid weird smoothing, smoothing. So the retouching isn't uniform all the way across. Right? And I did all this for touching, but she didn't get rid of the hair, but right, like you totally smooth her entire face. But you didn't smooth underneath her eyebrows, right? You know what I mean? It's just inconsistent. It's inconsistent. And I think that you were better off with the original. I'd go back to that and start over, be much more of a minimalist. Yeah. So before and after I like it. You just intensified what was kind of already there. I like it before. After. I don't even know that you needed to increase your exposure by this month. No, I don't either. I feel like somewhere in the middle of the two explosions be a happy medium exactly. Before after, then just shoot it with the background, right? Yeah. I mean, when you start when you start looking up in the baby's hair, you can see where it's been cut off and dropped onto a different background. Yeah, it's very obvious, you know, it's just not um unbelievable. Yeah, Before, after, It's nice. Like if you wanted to retain a darker sky and yet a lighter face, you could have let their faces with some sort of external like course. I feel like they did. You know, it's just not enough. Yes, just crank up your power a little more, and then you can keep a slightly darker back. Overall, I would be happy with Yeah, exactly before after. I mean, this is you just need longer ones, but you've cropped it and pushed it so much that the file starts to fall apart a little bit. It does Look at the bride and the dad and in there and then come in here. And then even the hair hair is really Yeah, it's just starting to get kind of mushi. It's also looks out of focus to me. I don't know it does. I don't know, maybe is the efficient focus. I can't tell it so soft. I can't tell just I think a different angle would have also helped using, evidently, on this before. After guys, If there's no light on the subject's face, just brightening it up in post isn't You know you've now made her face the correct exposure. But you've lost everything else. And now the grass is kind of like a nuclear Technicolor green. So it's just, you know, it's tough, like you probably had no control over this situation when you are, I'm sure none. But I would rather see like a localized brush used to gently lighten her face in this situation. If you had to keep it if you felt you had to, if you had nothing else from the situation before after, it's a big improvement, big improvement and very, very good editing out of the thing over the guy's head. Yeah, it's actually really, really well, don't know them before after Why the crop? No, I guess they thought the other flowers were distracting, but it I think they're fine. It'll have a purple napkins that's not like you're getting. You spent 10 seconds re cropping the image. If you do that, you know a couple 100 times you've really added a lot of time to your editing over a crop that the image is perfectly fine. It didn't need a crop, and I like the processing. It's clean before, after the diamond looks good looks fine before. After I think that's vignettes. A bit heavy. A little bit, Yeah, especially. And it was not. It's not even centered. So you're a living yet on the on the part of the ring, and it went from kind of green, the kind of I don't know what that I orangey brown gold just a little too much before this is too blue. And again, I mean, if the tuxedo is blue and it wasn't really blew, you've got a problem, and I would never have removed the tree from behind his head. You've taken out the tree, but you've left a frond at the top that I don't know where it's coming from. So it looks really I wouldn't remove the tree unless I was removing it. For for an album with a specific request to move, remove the tree. Yep, the grade before, after it's better. Better. It's a sucky situation when the broad gaze in the mirror and there's no light. None. I mean, you can't have helped that, but it is an improvement before, after it's also thinking for better someone before after, I don't like how you handle this. Yeah, it's like you had you under exposed. There's a little light on her face. There's a little light on her face. But then you created a situation where not only is she spotlighted, but look at the blacks. What is what? This. It's a light stand of some kind. Is it a deejay light? Is it a light stands? It could be a videographer, like if the videographer light. Shame, shame on them. I listen. I can see what you're trying to do here. You're tryingto lighting up her face so that it's more dramatic. But as a result of doing that, it's called a host of other problems. It has before after. I mean, the quality of light just isn't there. No. And you're trying to save it. And it's I mean, you did helping. You didn't prove it. Absolutely. What? It were yellow. It would have helped to have improved the lighting in the original capture agreed before, after government of Christina Aguilera, the retouching on the eyes is creeping. Is crazy town like basically what you've done? Yes, she's totally got hot spots on her face. She's super young. That kid has no pores whatsoever. um, I hate her. No, I'm just kidding. Like she has really incredible incl credible skin. But now it's been taken toe like, Ah, Bo talks to varnish where, like, plastic there's and you did her chest to, I think, right, I can't even tell. Maybe not. Maybe she's just like that, but yeah, it looks very plasticky to me, and you can really see it when you talk, go back and forth and again stop taking out stuff you don't need to take out. Look at this. It's here. Now it's gone. Why? And it's not even gone very well at all. You can see there's a smudge where it's been removed. Why would you take that out like you don't need to? Unless it was at the client's request for the album, and if the client has requested you to retouch them, you know, to the ends of the Earth like this, I'll do it for him. I won't like it, but it's if this is what you're doing for yourself. You didn't need to remove that thing on the right. It was neither helping nor harming the image before. After it's fun to me, I mean this is suit really blue? Why does he have his phone in his pocket? I keep coming back to that. Look, dude, come on happened. I mean, his suit is I can't tell if it's a blue or gray looks little blue in the final, I would just say, What's that? Yeah, just be careful with it. Just know that when you have black suits, grey suits, whatever. If you push them too hard, they'll look blue. Although I like to think that this gentleman made a daring fashion choice before after, I wouldn't have warmed it so much. But it's just not arming a little. It's not very compelling. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of a vague vintage edit of not a picture. You know, there's just there's, as my husband likes to charmingly say, There is no there there, which he likes to say about my work. When I it hurts my feelings, I'll be like, What do you think of this? And he's like, there's just no there there, But he'll be right, right? Like sometimes we get emotionally attached two pictures that we really shouldn't and this just isn't it. You know, it just kind of isn't before. After I like about, uh, hang on. Look here before, After lightning brush. Right? And I went a little too much when it done it before. After it's better. It's better. But why'd you crop it? Well, to blown out a little too yellow green before after? No. Would not have gone in that direction. Just it's you're trying to fix the lighting scenario on her face and you ended up just making the whole image yellow and over exposed before, after this just didn't work. It just doesn't work. If you're gonna solo Adam, you have to put him against something. You want to sell it? Let them again. Mr. Just a just doesn't you know, maybe if you'd gotten really far down on the ground and clear their heads out of the top, you might have been aren't And it's to green guys. It's just way too green before after I like that. I love that. I think it's really gone before after. Good job. Good job, man. That was a rough scene. Yep. You nicely done. We I strongly like this locking away. I thought self. Five sunglasses on the head. Dude, why? Before, After I honestly would never go to black and white with a photo like this, because there is she, Yeah, good color in it. Yeah, it was partly here, and the black and white, That kind of the muddy black and white, sort of the filmy, muddy, black and white. Not my preference. But if it is your preference, just make sure that it's not so dark that it's really under exposed before after still yellow major improvement. Major improvement. Fine. We'll do a little hotness now. It's gone from a little blue green to a little pink yellow, but better before after when the crop that it doesn't need to You're in a big dance scene. Why not show that they're in the middle of a big crowd of dance? Will write that does not also too much contrast. He lost your blacks here before, after two yellow to yellow before, after. The flyaways are not what I would have sent my time on. But they're also really badly retouched. Yeah, it's very obvious. You can see halo lines around everything, and you've got to be super careful when you take out under eye circles that you take. Don't take them out so far that they start to lose dimension in their face before after, I would not have picked black and white for this. No, because black holes are so much of the story here. Yeah, and black and white starts emphasizing some of the issues with the image. Um, color helps before after. Ah, heavily water colored painted version of a snapshot doesn't make it an art piece. If I took this picture of my kids with my phone, I would love it. It's really cute. If I were doing this for a client, I would never take this to that and try to make it more than what it waas Look at all the highlight data. Lost. Yeah, before After, I don't think you needed to lose the girl on the right. Yeah, and she frames LeBron. Well, the issue is there was so much headroom up at the top. That doesn't help. The only way to maintain the same aspect ratio. And you know, you Yeah, I would have rather lost the efficient on the left. I would have to because she's got a weird look, our leadership, but she got a word. Look on her face I probably wouldn't have cropped us. Yeah, the crop doesn't improve or heard. It's a slightly sloppy composition, right? You either need to angle higher angle lower. Agreed. You know, and I would have angled. Yeah. I think you did too much here. Too much. It's yellow, It's green. It's the color. Don't look natural. It's just you're trying to make her match him and he's facing the light. And she doesn't. Yeah, it's so it's not right yet. Too far. 12 I wish you'd shop it like this. Yep. Because this one too. This is better. Yeah, they're a little too dark now. Yeah, I like this composition. I just wish you would know that from the beginning. Yes, 12 could say it's still green. Yeah, it's a good save. It's still green, and it's still a little flat, but it better it. Let's ever cast. Yeah. It's fun. Sure. 12 Good job bringing back the detail. Yeah, that was a nice It's this this the maker of this of these images. I think that's venues in Massachusetts there, doing the same thing over and over and over again. They're crushing out the blacks, crushing out the highlights and making everything kind of a muddy orange. That's kind of a universal issue, with the images coming out of this one maker before, after guys away over expect its way overexposed and not well lit here, it's way over exposed, not well lit in yellow here, sort of turquoise. Yeah, it's kind of, uh, weird. It needs external light. Yep, before after really don't like this? It's your color, and the original was better than this. It's an editorial choice that I don't believe helps tell the story of the scene. And they're still blown out. Yeah, before after. Looks good. Be careful of your highlights, but it looks good. I mean, the blocks are blocked up, but it's cool. But that's a stylistic decision. I can live with it. Yeah, it looks like a need idea. We have silhouette from a background before After its better. Better? Definitely better before after. Why the crop? That doesn't help. I mean, listen, I can talk to you about your editing style all day long, but the original maker of this photograph really needs to go back and start working on their lighting instead? Yep, Before after again with Okay, listen, we got to talk about this one particular maker and their need to remove things from the background. This goes away that goes away. Why, Like you don't all of these leaves on the ground go away? But it doesn't. But why? And now her face didn't need anything, Didn't need a thing. And now it's got some weird editing that makes it look dirty. It's too much. It is, too, too, too much before after. And I am certain that it was in this order before, after you actually needed to go in the other direction instead of going above you actually needed to come down a little bit blood, and you were fairly close on the capture. That's too much. Now it's just blown out before. After she's two or still orange, she still orange. I don't know where that light's coming from. I don't know either. Very orange. Yeah, but we had orangy yellow on this one. This particular subject before I must feel like the person is using us a light ideal. I gotta be careful. Would make your color temperatures work together. Yeah, you don't use a tungsten light out before after two mile. I like the fact that you warmed it up. I think that was a good choice. I do. But now it's green and it's two blown out. Yeah, I didn't really need to raise the exposure much on the before. After it's good, black and white is a good black and white. That's it abundantly. I like it before after, Why are we cropping guys? I mean it. Just just straighten it up a little, but you didn't really need to. But the black and white, his eyes, they're a little lost. But that's just the nature of the image. I think before, after it's better time before after stories like that, that's well done. Selective center lightning. I thought so, too, before after again. Why the crop for now? For what purpose, Right? Like and I actually really like the black and white. Just be careful about blocking up the blacks in a suit before, after a little too much selective. You running here a little bit too. They didn't need it. No. Hey, Philadelphia before, After too dark, too dark and too orangey in the 2nd 1 in particular feel like you exacerbated the I mean, listen, I know where you are. You're you're not angled quite correctly. She needs to step a little closer to the back wall. He needs to step a little closer to you. You're just missing it just a hair and tried to fix it in post. And it's just missing before after I like it, I like it. It's a nice sunlight effect, but turning it over to the black and white and it's a believe. It's nice location well done before. Why are we cropping? It's not. This would've been so much better if you had gotten down and gotten them against the sky and exposed for the sky, or even gotten up and got them against the water. Yeah, there's But there's just no reason for that crop. You No, no, there's no reason for the crop. And they, you know you never got the sky right? This one baffles me to death before after. I don't know why this why? Why did why I've never flipped an image that I can ever think of, other than just its flip flopped and then is pushed too hard. It's because your lights not right. And you're trying to kind of sit. I just don't I don't even know how to complement comment, cause I don't know what's going on here before, after Nice. Before. After, I didn't think that taking stuff off the walls, that doesn't need to be taken off the walls. Only yage look to the left. Everything on that wall disappears. Why? I just don't. And you flattened out here? Yeah. I mean, it's a stylistic choice, but I don't know when you just start removing things that you think are distracting. Why did you stop there? Why didn't you take this? You know, door knob? Why didn't you take everything off? Like I just don't understand why some things went and something stayed right. Like you took this picture off of here. I don't know. And also just be careful. The photo shopping is really kind of when you're cloning from one area with a lot of noise, or you're planning to an area with a lot of noise from an area with not a lot of noise. There's noise over here, and then it's really blurry right there. So just be really careful. One to you went too far with the darkening them. And if you crop like this, there is no way you can ever enlarge this. Yeah, just leave this, you know, in the original crop, and then don't darken it down some of yeah. And you don't need to dark in the dark with shadows in the blocks. Yeah, this much one do could save bathroom saves, but she didn't need to take the things out of the bottom, right? You No need for that. It wasn't even distracting. No one to guy. I mean, it's the same problem you've had with all of your other images. You flatten it down and you make it a weird orange. And it is not. It's just not helping. It's just making things like here. I'm not sure what they're doing before. After what did they remove this stone? Why? Why? That there's nothing wrong with that. I thought it was fine. Yeah, you just have to resist the urge, you know, because once you start picking, you're just gonna keep picking before after just it. Too much with the eyes. Way too much with the eyes. And now she looks like a succubus. Now and now, She's orange. You know, you just got to be really careful. Yeah, over warning eyes is dangerous in pumping it up a little bit. You've emphasized the green color cast. Something weird is happening. Do you see how it's bulging? Excellence? Crickets, lens correction. I just I just think the highlights are a little to Britain. I think I'm distracted by the highlights. I think that's what it waas before. After, I like the idea of what you were trying to do, which is really emphasized this girl, that she made her to pink into China. Dolly and she could get a little too much. Yeah, if you have back that off, I think you would have been in a demolition. Yeah, before, after we were seeing the same problems that this maker also almost going that cross processed push. Look, it's too much. You don't need it before after, Okay, You destroy the context of this photo like, now we have no idea what's really why they're playing Jenga, I think Good black and white conversion. But But I wouldn't have cropped it in so much because having that guy in the foreground gave it a little contact. It did. And just seeing what was going on a little more easily. I do like the subjects were really cute, though. And the black and white is nice one to. That's fine. Good job. One to, um, maybe a little too much clarity. Maybe a little. Maybe it's a touch green. Little green, but not bad. One looks one gonna say, While they turned it into an Indian family that wasn't remain. It's an odd crop to start with, cropping them off in the middle of their bodies like that. Yeah, but it's an improvement. It is an improvement. I'm not a warmed it a little yet. Sure. Yeah. Looks good. 12 Good, good. That's good One, too. Oh, now it It's still a little orange yellowy. It's getting there. It's better. It's better one to shoot it that way. You know a good job darkening it down yet? One. Nothing. I want no, go back. Just one second, okay. We gotta go a lot faster. Yeah, I think the highlights. I feel like they flattened out the highlights. Exposure and dropping exposure probably would have been enough. Yeah, well, dropping exposure would have retained kind of a dramatic shadow highlight relationship and crushing the highlights. Just makes it start looking flat exactly before after good, good black and white. Why the crop? Yeah, I wouldn't know. Just didnt need it before after. Dude, you know what we're gonna say? Same problem. Same problem before after. Fine. Totally fine before after overcorrected way. I mean, too bright. I mean, you were on his and you, under my multiple stops, watch his shoulder. It looks like he's wearing like a furry flee suit. It's been pushed so hard. Look at this kid back here. Yeah, it's Bertel. It's It's It's too much. Too much before after. Okay, it's fine. Yeah, that's nice. Little bright, little bright in a little too dark in the blacks. But it's a nice life in a way before, after a little HDR for my life. Agreed. And it brings that great You You okay? Look it down by her feet. There's somebody crouched behind them, holding a light your room and they're badly cloned out. You can't get a gorilla pod. Yeah, you just can't do it like that. And also, the light is coming from the wrong angle. I would actually like to see the person go outside. And this way. So the lights, not just up under their chins. If they were outside, it would have come in and hit her face. That would not have done this. And you would have not have to touch out what looks like a naked person. Buy when your room lighting watch the chin thing. Because under the chin isn't flattering. One two. It's a nice block away again. You know, if you were gonna crop them, why don't you crop the flash all the way out? Yeah. One to one two time. You're trying to overcorrect for some lighting. That's kind of water bomb. Yeah, but you didn't have a job. Now it's a little blue I think your client can live without. I absolutely think so. I like her dress. It's really pretty neat. Yeah. I wish people would wear more interesting justice. Yeah, that would be cool. color is still really often. I'm not sure what this situation was, but it's still very orange. Yeah, it's just mildly less so.