Damien Symonds

Also, can you confirm that you have all the settings correct per this article?

Gosh! That's rather strange, isn't it? Can you remind me - did you successfully calibrate your laptop screen?

And? How does the room look/feel?

How was it, @Siobhan Wolff?

Thanks, you too!

So far so good! Staying at home as much as we can. We're very lucky that we can both still work.

Both perfect ❤️

Oh, that's tough. You'd probably err towards the 5000.

How's the quality when you examine it up close?

I don't think you quite got all my numbers. This is redder than mine. But if you like it redder, that's great! Go with it.

After you make the adjustment, make sure you examine the quality up close. Playing around with very dark tones in a photo can leave us very vulnerable to graininess.

Try this Levels layer: Red 0/2.50/255 and 5/225 Green 0/1.60/255 and 0/250 Blue 0/1.00/245 and 0/255 And show me how it turns out.

This is about as tan as we can mange. Will it satisfy your customer?

Please promise you will never EVER crop during editing again?

Is that the whole photo now? No more little surprises for me?

PLEASE just show me the raw edit. No fancy business. Never do that either. It's even worse!

Come on, you cropped again! NEVER do that.

Almost there ...

Are you aware that you don't need to pay full price to join the Raw Class again? Clearly much has slipped your mind, and the class itself has been completely overhauled and updated since you were in it. I urge you to consider it.

No no no!!!!!!! You MUST get it right in raw.

I'm fidgeting in suspense here! How did it go?

Yes.

It's really hard to make lamps work. They're so ... "directional", you know? Still, it might be your only option. Anyway, I need you to know that your photo is dark. Not, like, crazy dark. But just enough to be of concern. Oh, ok! That lifts my spirits.

Darn. Any way to modify it?

Then the important question is: Is your indoor lighting bright enough and white enough?