After a week of rain, the weather is becoming warmer again. Nevertheless we were good boys and recorded a training video today. I taught Ninja a new trick and will edit the video today/tomorrow.
Golden Hour Light
Godrays, Backlight and a Woofer…
This is my favorite kind of motive… I am simply in love with backlight… sunrays and Ninja.
Lightroom Editing with Wolf look-alike Siberian Husky Ninja
As explained in the previous post. RAW files are meant to be edited.
Here is what I do… I like to spread out the Histogram a bit… raising exposure, lowering lights, raising shadows… but not too much, I do not want HDR 😁
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Then I do a quickfix to get off the coat color cast by reducing vibrance and giving back some saturation… in the end I also turn dowsn saturation of orange, yellow and green and raise their lightness…
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I reduce clarity (brining it back later with radial mask) and work the tone curves to give contrast.
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Then go to HSL and turn orange and yellow to red and green to green to tone the weird brown head colors. They’d look greenish otherwise.
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Then I add a slight vignette in color priority mode.
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Under camera calibration I do some changes that fit my a6000 + SEL50F18 (slightly red cast) and tone hues + whitebalance
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The mist important step are radial filters to lead the eye to Ninja.. slightly increased saturation, clarity, sharpness on Ninja and reverse outside of him… these are slight changes but the brain notices it.
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That is it… takes 2 min to adjust if you use a preset. Here I spent 10… but did a sloppy job on chromatic abberation
Source
How do you edit pictures?
At first… I am always shooting in RAW. This means that I get all the data the sensor was able to pick up. If you shoot in JPG, there is already some basic adjustments applied… lens corrections, basic adjustments for vibrance, saturation, contrast and also for exposure.
Ninja’s coat is reflecting colors…
When taking pictures of Ninja there are often odd colors in his fur. In bright daylight, he seems so much lighter than he should and as soon as it becomes cloudy, he looks very dark.
Urban Ninja framed in Graffiti…
Yesterday we took a long hike. I had some spots where I wanted to make shots of Ninja, to show something different.
A longer hike ahead…
We are about to start a longer hike today, hence the early post. Not quite sure where we will head to, maybe to Gonsenheim, maybe to the Rhine… maybe towards Bingen, I’ll let Ninja decide.
Surprised by Rain…
Recently we had many rain showers. I started checking weather sites before we start a long hike.
Imagesequence of a very happy Ninja
When Ninja is running very happy towards me, he will either waggle his head to the left and right or do a little excited jump just like seen here. It warms my heart every time I see it…
Husky Ninja Happy Face
When Ninja is running very happy towards me, he will either waggle his head to the left and right or do a little excited jump just like seen here. It warms my heart every time I see it…
How does your dog express happiness?
Yesterday I asked if anyone – including YOU! Haha – knew a manufacture for dog collars… 80 comments without a single answer. I’d be very thankful for some suggestions.