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I am about a quarter of the way through my project of sorting / re-editing all my old pictures from Kane concerts. I'll probably post a few times about this project. Some of the color correction is going really well! Omg, the color info my camera at the time got was actually really impressive.
At the time (circa 2009), I thought my pictures were painfully bad. Looking back, wtf was I on?
Okay, for context:
* My original files are gone. Someone deleted them off of one of my drive deliberately because she that'd be a cute thing to do
* My current files are not just JPEG exports, they are the version downscaled for 2009 era social media posting that I recovered by DL-ing from my own FB and photobucket accounts
* Concerts are the worst. The subjects move. The light sources move. Tons of reflections. Stupid mikes are in front of the faces for some reason. I really wish concerts would stop having all the mikes and stuff, really gets in the way of my shots.
* I was using the very first M43 camera with a kit lens and was still too scared to use any mode but iAuto / programmatic.
* This is a tight crop:
I mean obviously if I was using aperture priority, a prime lens, an appropriate metering mode, etc. this would be loads better. The original files would be 10 times better... if someone hadn't deleted them. But really, this ain't bad. I am really overly self-critical at times. Also, um, I can tell my lens was dirty that night. Some of the shots didn't come out or have visual gonks due to that. My first real camera was really goodif only I'd have know what I was doing.
One problem I am having with re-editing is that trying to do red-eye correction on the images in LR isn't working, and my computer sometimes crashes when I ask it to try. So I've been trying to fix the images pixel by pixel in MS paint and it looks really bad zoomed in. But ... downscale a bit and I don't think it's obvious?
Dear self, why did think that was a bad picture? I mean, I never captured the stage interactions as well as I'd've liked but... that would be hard even today with my current gear and skill level.
If Leverage coming back means that Kane concerts happen again somewhere I will go and will shoot with my current set up. I mean, nowhere in any of this is One Great Shot, but there are a lot of cute ones.
Anyway, this is going to take me forever to get through, but I am doing it piece by piece. I'll likely post some comparisons of before / after re-editing soon. I was too nervous to color correct back in the day. I was worried I'd screw up skin tones, not even realize how off they were and then look dumb. But now I've corrected like maybe 100 pictures? I had 600+ in the folder. I've gotten it down to about 500 by removing duplicates. I am hoping to make a 'ten best' gallery and then also a giant dump of all the pics that aren't complete trash.
At the time (circa 2009), I thought my pictures were painfully bad. Looking back, wtf was I on?
Okay, for context:
* My original files are gone. Someone deleted them off of one of my drive deliberately because she that'd be a cute thing to do
* My current files are not just JPEG exports, they are the version downscaled for 2009 era social media posting that I recovered by DL-ing from my own FB and photobucket accounts
* Concerts are the worst. The subjects move. The light sources move. Tons of reflections. Stupid mikes are in front of the faces for some reason. I really wish concerts would stop having all the mikes and stuff, really gets in the way of my shots.
* I was using the very first M43 camera with a kit lens and was still too scared to use any mode but iAuto / programmatic.
* This is a tight crop:
I mean obviously if I was using aperture priority, a prime lens, an appropriate metering mode, etc. this would be loads better. The original files would be 10 times better... if someone hadn't deleted them. But really, this ain't bad. I am really overly self-critical at times. Also, um, I can tell my lens was dirty that night. Some of the shots didn't come out or have visual gonks due to that. My first real camera was really good
One problem I am having with re-editing is that trying to do red-eye correction on the images in LR isn't working, and my computer sometimes crashes when I ask it to try. So I've been trying to fix the images pixel by pixel in MS paint and it looks really bad zoomed in. But ... downscale a bit and I don't think it's obvious?
Dear self, why did think that was a bad picture? I mean, I never captured the stage interactions as well as I'd've liked but... that would be hard even today with my current gear and skill level.
If Leverage coming back means that Kane concerts happen again somewhere I will go and will shoot with my current set up. I mean, nowhere in any of this is One Great Shot, but there are a lot of cute ones.
Anyway, this is going to take me forever to get through, but I am doing it piece by piece. I'll likely post some comparisons of before / after re-editing soon. I was too nervous to color correct back in the day. I was worried I'd screw up skin tones, not even realize how off they were and then look dumb. But now I've corrected like maybe 100 pictures? I had 600+ in the folder. I've gotten it down to about 500 by removing duplicates. I am hoping to make a 'ten best' gallery and then also a giant dump of all the pics that aren't complete trash.
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Date: 2021-04-04 02:39 am (UTC)From:Those look great to me! I think you did a great job (because concerts are hard as fuck to get good pictures at) and especially for when you didn't have nearly the experience you do now. I'm glad you're being less critical of 2009-you. (And despite needing to downscale them a bit due to not having the originals, they still look good!)
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Date: 2021-04-04 07:06 am (UTC)From: