wrong lighting

StudioPopJess · February 15

HI! I had made last minute decision in the chaos of this wedding to leave my light where it was so I could get the grooms reaction ( those photos don't look like this!) this is a screen shot, just a screen shot.. forgive me I haven't posted in a long time, the second is how I would normally edit that reflects my style.. but it makes the dad blue with spillover light.... I have never taken your raw class ( I know I know). just wondering if you can make any suggestions? thank you!

**Damien Symonds** · February 15

I can probably help with this, but I'll need the actual photo not a screenshot.

StudioPopJess · February 15

is there a way to send the raw?

or do you want the jpeg?

StudioPopJess · February 15

I have a bunch of these, I know you hate Lightroom , but I do use it and did dehaze.... don't hate me and yell at me please lol

**Damien Symonds** · February 15

You do have Photoshop though, right?

StudioPopJess · February 16

Yep! This is my initial edit in Lightroom with the standard preset I use

**Damien Symonds** · February 16

Phew.

Can you confirm your colour space? https://www.damiensymonds.net/art_tscs000.html

StudioPopJess · February 16

srgb!

StudioPopJess · February 16

**Damien Symonds** · February 16

6 hours ago, StudioPopJess said:

For the love of God, Jess, PLEASE don't wait any longer to learn how to edit.

**Damien Symonds** · February 16

Add a Levels adjustment layer and enter these values:

- Red channel: 0/1.00/230
- Green channel: 85/1.00/230
- Blue channel: 125/1.00/225

This will make the whole photo kinda crazy orange.

Then invert the mask to hide the adjustment. Then use a big soft brush at 10% opacity to paint onto the problem area.

**Damien Symonds** · February 16

StudioPopJess · February 18

I will do this soon, was gone all day... anyway to fix the haze?

**Damien Symonds** · February 18

What?

I just told you how to fix it.

StudioPopJess · February 20

I guess I don't know how to do that.. Levels I always use the slider to make brighter or darker this is what I see with levels

**Damien Symonds** · February 20

See where it says "RGB" in that little pull-down at the top? That's where you find the individual channels.

StudioPopJess · February 28

color is better, but the haze is still there ... is that the best that can be done?

**Damien Symonds** · February 28

This is a different version of the photo than you posted for me before?

StudioPopJess · March 1

this is edited with what you said and I removed the light stand

**Damien Symonds** · March 1

I gave you very precise numbers based on the exact image you'd given me. This one:

On 2/16/2024 at 9:05 AM, StudioPopJess said:

I have a bunch of these, I know you hate Lightroom , but I do use it and did dehaze.... don't hate me and yell at me please lol

But the image you applied my numbers to was different. A different crop, and a different edit. That's why my numbers didn't work for you.

StudioPopJess · March 2

oh, I have like 50.. it looks the same crop to me.. I removed the light stand .. applied your correction.. but then I used levels to darken more too to try to get rid of haze

**Damien Symonds** · March 2

On 2/16/2024 at 9:05 AM, StudioPopJess said:

I have a bunch of these, I know you hate Lightroom , but I do use it and did dehaze.... don't hate me and yell at me please lol

On 2/29/2024 at 4:39 AM, StudioPopJess said:

color is better, but the haze is still there ... is that the best that can be done?

Flick between the two, and see the different crop.

StudioPopJess · March 5

ok, I may have cropped it in when I was removing the light stand

StudioPopJess · March 5

for example... was trying to fix color and haze in about 50 images and I will remove the light stand on right and crop in if it makes it easier for me.. I didn't think a crop would make a different in color or the haze.