Editing Old Pictures
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photographyonMy life has been dealing with roughly 1,500 old concert photos and trying to wrangle them: delete duplicates, color correct, etc. I still have a few with red eye problems I can't seem to fix with Lightroom, online tools or anything else I've tried.
For some where the colors are just borked I wasn't sure what to do with them, but I finally found my other brain cell and remembered that if color is being a problem, you can just make the color go away. Going from color to B&W changes the composition a lot but adding vignetting hides a variety of sins.
This is actor/musician Christian Kane and his band. That's who I have take literally over a thousand pictures of. He has a habit of putting his hand over his heart and looking at the audience at the end of sets for a moment and I don't have a good picture of that. I usually don't shoot at that part of the show at all. Better pics at my website, but I am also really, really charmed by these and wanted to do something with them even though they are 'bad' photos from a technical POV. I physically put my camera away for large portions on concerts so I focus on being there and don't even think about getting shots.
So now I am making B&W version of some of the photo sets. It's saved a few images.
My current website gallery is here. I'll be adding a few more and also separating out galleries like this into a secondary Secret Menu for geeky stuff.
For some where the colors are just borked I wasn't sure what to do with them, but I finally found my other brain cell and remembered that if color is being a problem, you can just make the color go away. Going from color to B&W changes the composition a lot but adding vignetting hides a variety of sins.
This is actor/musician Christian Kane and his band. That's who I have take literally over a thousand pictures of. He has a habit of putting his hand over his heart and looking at the audience at the end of sets for a moment and I don't have a good picture of that. I usually don't shoot at that part of the show at all. Better pics at my website, but I am also really, really charmed by these and wanted to do something with them even though they are 'bad' photos from a technical POV. I physically put my camera away for large portions on concerts so I focus on being there and don't even think about getting shots.
So now I am making B&W version of some of the photo sets. It's saved a few images.
My current website gallery is here. I'll be adding a few more and also separating out galleries like this into a secondary Secret Menu for geeky stuff.
