Damien Symonds

Happy new year, @Lisa Friday. PLEASE post some photos in the Raw Class this year.

Happy new year, @Melissalile. I hope I'll get to see lots and lots of your photos in class in 2019?

Hi Rahul, I've moved this question into Brian's section, because I've seen him talk about this frequently.

Can you run the free Recuva first, before deciding whether to invest in the Plus one?

Have you seen this? https://www.damiensymonds.net/magic-fairy-dust-tutorial.html

Links to examples?

Oh shit. No, you must never edit in a dark room.

Calibration is best done in dim light. So early in the morning is great. But any time of day is fine, as long as you can close the curtains or whatever. I trust you don't edit in a dark room? That is CATASTROPHIC.

Did you see this thread yesterday? https://www.facebook.com/groups/195567190503489/permalink/2131375090256013/

Hi @Eran, how did it turn out?

The second link is starting with a warm photo. Do you have one? Do you have the "before" of the first link?

Looks like the standard matte crap. Which of his photos in particular would you like to mimic?

No, it's not right. Well done for noticing! Lots of people never notice. https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html

I'm so sorry, the focus isn't good enough to keep these photos ?

Right, I see. Well, noise is not the problem by itself. Noise can always be removed. The problem is the focus (or lack of it) that might remain when the noise is removed. So can you go ahead and remove the noise on one of them, then show me a 100% crop?

No, but that's ok. Just checking. Am I correct to assume that your main concern is the hazy areas where the light from the window has affected some of the heads?

Hi @karri.chaney, did you shoot raw?

Happy new year, @cathm. How did the recalibration go?

https://www.damiensymonds.net/2014/11/the-bldy-adjustment-brush.html

So what did you decide? Will you change your lighting, or calibrate to a warmer setting?

It's really important that you don't overcomplicate this. Don't try to categorise different "levels of warm". If your prints are warmer than your screen, there are two things to do about it: If you think the fault might be your lighting, see if you can change to cooler lighting. If you think the fault is not the lighting, calibrate the screen again to a warmer setting.

Wonderful! Are you sure this is not the fault of your lighting? It's not too yellow in your room?

Then we'll talk about colour after that.

Right. So that's your next step - recalibrating at lower screen brightness so that they match.

Which is slightly darker? The screen or the prints?