I wanted to name this different than I did in another group because I think it fits the criteria better, please feel free to share your feedback on this with me.
I wanted to name this different than I did in another group because I think it fits the criteria better, please feel free to share your feedback on this with me.
I've been following this image around Bobby and have enjoyed the info you have shared about it. Would you be willing to repeat a little and let the group know how you took this? It is interesting!
I liked your response to the seamless background challenge. I'm not sure either of us, without headshots, are going to do well in that contest. :( I would love to see a less commercial theme come up. Fingers crossed!
Hey Bobby - After I saw the comment about this photo having a color band I really blew this up and it is there but I seriously never noticed it. it is yellow and I would guess you just took out the yellow color channel, it would disappear. I still think this is really cool! I'd give it a 4 even with the band!
What? I don't know what you are talking about, as I've only been doing photography for 2-3 years and I am self taught, so I really don't know what you mean.....? Are you talking about the umbrella or the grass in black and white that's curved?
No worries - Someone left a comment on the competition board about this image having 'color bands'. So, I went here, click on it and blew it up as big as I could. There are yellow bands of color which happen for some technical reason someone more knowledgeable than I can explain. I'll message Phillip and Chris. They will know. In order to explain where to look for them, I put a shadow on the screen capture below. I'll be back with an answer or help shortly!
Okay, I turned up the saturation to see the color banding and I'm convinced it's a JPEG compression artifact.
The first image is the photo with saturation maxed out. You can tell from the jaggy nature of the banding that it's a compression artifact and also that it's not just one color.
Then I desaturated completely and re-saved the image with JPEG quality set to 90 percent (second image). This usually results is minimal compression while still keeping the file size manageable.
Bobby, I would recommend checking your JPEG settings when you save for uploading here. If the Quality is below 50 percent, you're likely to get this kind of weird artifact, especially through subtle gradients like you have here.
Thanks Phillip I appreciate it so much, but here's my question when I edit the raw photo and it ask me if I want to save it at 100% jpeg or less, What do I do? Or what's the best setting?
I usually export JPEGs at about 90% quality. This reduces the file size but retains excellent detail with minimal compression artifacts.
The only time I will reduce the Quality setting below 90% is if I have to get the file size as small as possible to meet a maximum limitation of a website. These sites are not typically aimed at photographers and they don’t really care how ugly the photos are on display.
Thanks y'all!
I knew you would be able to help!
Thanks y'all!
Just for reason I did shoot this on a white piece of paper, could it be the highlighter?; I don't know! But I shot this in a small Glass with the grass in it facing down with as much natural light coming in.