Lens filters and RAW post editing.

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I wanted to step up my actinic LED only photos since shooting in raw and editing just wasn't enough to get an accurate representation of what I was seeing in person.

I ordered these:
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What type of editing in lightroom should I expect to have to focus on to make the photo look like what I'm actually seeing?
 
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Velcro said:
I wanted to step up my actinic LED only photos since shooting in raw and editing just wasn't enough to get an accurate representation of what I was seeing in person.

I ordered these:
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What type of editing in lightroom should I expect to have to focus on to make the photo look like what I'm actually seeing?
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none that are different from what your already doing. those are a good choice for a filter set.
 
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Velcro said:
Cool! I know you can get them individually cheaper on ebay but I wasn't sure if I'd use the yellow vs red vs orange vs amber so I thought this was the best move.
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no it totally is the right choice. A decent price too. your 100% correct, depending on your light you may need a yellow or an amber or the orange.

A filter is taking away from the exact opposite side of the visual spectrum. SO a Kessil will need a different filter than an SBreeflight as the two have a different blend of "blues". once you get one on the camera you can scroll up and down the white balance for the best look too.

A snarky photographer theing, Raw smaw,,, get the best color and exposure you can in the camera first. Itll leave you more room in raw IF you need it.
AND a tip, the color choices in camera"vivid":, "standard" etc can be worth playing with too.
 
saltyfilmfolks said:
no it totally is the right choice. A decent price too. your 100% correct, depending on your light you may need a yellow or an amber or the orange.

A filter is taking away from the exact opposite side of the visual spectrum. SO a Kessil will need a different filter than an SBreeflight as the two have a different blend of "blues". once you get one on the camera you can scroll up and down the white balance for the best look too.

A snarky photographer theing, Raw smaw,,, get the best color and exposure you can in the camera first. Itll leave you more room in raw IF you need it.
AND a tip, the color choices in camera"vivid":, "standard" etc can be worth playing with too.
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I like your take on improving the actual photo as much as possible prior to post editing. I always get a kick out of people selling coral when they say "straight from my camera, no editing here!" and their photo is just an overexposed blue fluorescent mess. People think editing, no CORRECTING, a photo is evil. It's so silly.
 
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I've always noticed that I have to get the WB as close as I can when shooting in raw, because when I get it into Lightroom, there still doesn't seem to be that much farther left to go to the yellow side of the spectrum in the WB slider.
@saltyfilmfolks do you know what I'm talking about?
My nikon only goes up to 10,000k. So I try to adjust my Radions closer to that which gives me a good starting point.
But sometimes I want to go even warmer than Lightroom will let me!
 
d2mini said:
I've always noticed that I have to get the WB as close as I can when shooting in raw, because when I get it into Lightroom, there still doesn't seem to be that much farther left to go to the yellow side of the spectrum in the WB slider.
@saltyfilmfolks do you know what I'm talking about?
My nikon only goes up to 10,000k. So I try to adjust my Radions closer to that which gives me a good starting point.
But sometimes I want to go even warmer than Lightroom will let me!
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Have you tried a yellow filter? I'm able to go TOO yellow for the first time now.
 
d2mini said:
I've always noticed that I have to get the WB as close as I can when shooting in raw, because when I get it into Lightroom, there still doesn't seem to be that much farther left to go to the yellow side of the spectrum in the WB slider.
@saltyfilmfolks do you know what I'm talking about?
My nikon only goes up to 10,000k. So I try to adjust my Radions closer to that which gives me a good starting point.
But sometimes I want to go even warmer than Lightroom will let me!
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Yup, I do.
From camera to camera and light to light the colors are different. We know that about our lights but thats how cameras(and film) create their unique "look"

Add that to, there is no yellow....RGB.

Kinda why I recommend it to get as close as you can with color in camera, by trying and using a variety of filters and white balances etc.

And the biggest oddity I've found was I had more latitude in Nikon Jpeg than canon raw:eek:. That was just portrait work...
 
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Velcro said:
Have you tried a yellow filter? I'm able to go TOO yellow for the first time now.
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I've used orange.
My question is more about the limitations of lightroom.
You would think that being a raw file, LR should let you choose any dang wb you want, no matter what you started with. But apparently not. ;Facepalm
 
d2mini said:
I've used orange.
My question is more about the limitations of lightroom.
You would think that being a raw file, LR should let you choose any dang wb you want, no matter what you started with. But apparently not. ;Facepalm
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yea, I agree. There has to be a limitation to it. I think some of it is because of the "interpolation". The computer and the camera have to "make stuff up" to fill in the gaps. If the camera is already doing it, and the software has to do it, there's going to be problems.
Ive seen it in other non tank photos too. The new nikon "look" def has some bugs, like fluro lights. It gives a magenta cast I just cant get out sometimes. esp in skintones. I can usually pick out a nikon video on TV because of it.

And yea all yall nikon haters, canon does it too...:p Long live Kodachrome!!!
 
d2mini said:
I've used orange.
My question is more about the limitations of lightroom.
You would think that being a raw file, LR should let you choose any dang wb you want, no matter what you started with. But apparently not. ;Facepalm
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Yea I agree with that. I have found that you can go further if you export the file as JPEG then bring it back in and adjust the temp further.
 
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saltyfilmfolks said:
yea, I agree. There has to be a limitation to it. I think some of it is because of the "interpolation". The computer and the camera have to "make stuff up" to fill in the gaps. If the camera is already doing it, and the software has to do it, there's going to be problems.
Ive seen it in other non tank photos too. The new nikon "look" def has some bugs, like fluro lights. It gives a magenta cast I just cant get out sometimes. esp in skintones. I can usually pick out a nikon video on TV because of it.

And yea all yall nikon haters, canon does it too...:p Long live Kodachrome!!!
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LOL!
Yeah and speaking of the magenta... LR has been adding the magenta tint on import. I have to move that slider from 20 back down closer to zero.
Must be a custom setting or something somewhere because it's not happening at work, only at home. At work it's -1. What the duck!? LOL! ;Rageo_O

Sorry, Velcro... didn't mean to turn this into a LR discussion. lol
 
Too lazy to play with filters (believe its time I got a set and experimented) so far I have good results with adjusting wb in PS raw editor using the white balance tool and clicking on a grey area in the picture...
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I have not yet used the gel filters I have. Just a few pieces that you tape over the flash. Even though I have not used them yet I like the ones you ordered and think would like a set. Have to check if they come in different size ring.

Thanks for posting.
 

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