Shot was taken in early 2022 in natural light. It was taken on the roof of our home right beside a mongo tree thats at our back garden. I wanted to shoot through the leaves of the tree to get a nice foreground blur and positioned him in a way to minimize the white pockets of sky peaking through the leaves behind him. The Sun was lighting the scene from the back, so used a white bounce from my left to put some light back to his face.
Post processing done with Primary, HSL and tone curve in lightroom then smoothed out the skin and used selective area curve to brighten his neck and tshirt in photoshop.
Camera: Sony a6400
Lens: 18 - 135 f/3.5 - 5.6
135mm
f/5.6
ISO: 100
1/80sec
(It was one those phases in my photography journey when I thought ISO 100 = No Noise, so reducing shutter speed is the only way forward)
A little over processed (to bright) but I still like it.
Thank you for the feedback. I'll definitely try recfifying it. Do you have any suggestions on how I can have similar look across most of the household devices? I am getting different results on different smartphones, TVs. Is there any rule of thumb that I should follow? I think histogram can be one, but are there anything else?