Flighty (SOOC)
For Smile on Saturday's #Flora SOOC theme
With thanks to Maria and the SOS team for encouraging me to post a SOOC image.
Generally, my images have quite a lot of post-processing going on. There's always at least a little tweak that I want to make, to composition, colour, removing distractions etc. I also use editing to draw attention to my subject, as well as enjoying making creative edits (playing with colour or blur etc). I don't think I've ever posted SOOC before.
But I've had a few conversations recently that made me think - do I need to? I'm definitely better at thinking about the image while I'm taking it - looking at the image, deleting those that don't work, adjusting the WB or the composition etc. Plus sitting down to edit is difficult for me at the moment, so 'going' SOOC would definitely be better for me.
Looking at the 5 or 6 images from my archive that I wondered about posting for this theme, I could probably post them as SOOC. But... with most I still see those little tweaks that I would prefer to make that would turn them from decent, interesting images into something closer to the vision I have for them.
This one: I'd turn down the saturation, tone the green a little, and sharpen, as well as focusing the light a little. But I haven't touched it - I promise!
(Sorry, I'm going to shut up soon. But...there were some interesting discussions around what constitutes straight-out-of-camera these days. True - we can choose different picture 'styles' in our camera, choose our aperture or shutter speed settings, choose our WB or even sharpness etc, so we are making conscious choices about the image we take when we take the picture. I think the skill of SOOC is to make these choices with the camera, rather than in the software after the event. I would include cropping with this - you choose your composition & crop when you take the picture, though I appreciate it is so tempting just to tweak slightly. Interesting to ponder this as a subject ...
Also, I note the issue of RAW - I shoot in RAW, and as this was an archive shot, I had to convert it to .jpg in software. Potentially, you could say this is influencing the image. But I think even when a camera is shooting in .jpg, it is making certain adjustments that you just can't avoid, unless you could post the raw image. So I see the RAW conversion to .jpg by my Canon software as akin to the RAW conversion to .jpg by my Canon camera. But always happy to be corrected by those who know far more than me.)
Flighty (SOOC)
For Smile on Saturday's #Flora SOOC theme
With thanks to Maria and the SOS team for encouraging me to post a SOOC image.
Generally, my images have quite a lot of post-processing going on. There's always at least a little tweak that I want to make, to composition, colour, removing distractions etc. I also use editing to draw attention to my subject, as well as enjoying making creative edits (playing with colour or blur etc). I don't think I've ever posted SOOC before.
But I've had a few conversations recently that made me think - do I need to? I'm definitely better at thinking about the image while I'm taking it - looking at the image, deleting those that don't work, adjusting the WB or the composition etc. Plus sitting down to edit is difficult for me at the moment, so 'going' SOOC would definitely be better for me.
Looking at the 5 or 6 images from my archive that I wondered about posting for this theme, I could probably post them as SOOC. But... with most I still see those little tweaks that I would prefer to make that would turn them from decent, interesting images into something closer to the vision I have for them.
This one: I'd turn down the saturation, tone the green a little, and sharpen, as well as focusing the light a little. But I haven't touched it - I promise!
(Sorry, I'm going to shut up soon. But...there were some interesting discussions around what constitutes straight-out-of-camera these days. True - we can choose different picture 'styles' in our camera, choose our aperture or shutter speed settings, choose our WB or even sharpness etc, so we are making conscious choices about the image we take when we take the picture. I think the skill of SOOC is to make these choices with the camera, rather than in the software after the event. I would include cropping with this - you choose your composition & crop when you take the picture, though I appreciate it is so tempting just to tweak slightly. Interesting to ponder this as a subject ...
Also, I note the issue of RAW - I shoot in RAW, and as this was an archive shot, I had to convert it to .jpg in software. Potentially, you could say this is influencing the image. But I think even when a camera is shooting in .jpg, it is making certain adjustments that you just can't avoid, unless you could post the raw image. So I see the RAW conversion to .jpg by my Canon software as akin to the RAW conversion to .jpg by my Canon camera. But always happy to be corrected by those who know far more than me.)