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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 75468, member: 201&quot;]Love the great photos in this thread!</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have a good space near a window with the right kind of light, so I&#039;ve taken a different approach and rely almost entirely on artificial light, often shooting at night.</p><p><br /></p><p>I use lights coming from 2-4 directions depending upon what I&#039;m shooting. All are full-spectrum daylight bulbs... some are bulbs in a standard fixture and some are OTT lights.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to spend a lot of time on editing, but thanks to a good camera I bought a few years ago... and finally learning how to use its settings... I usually only need to do a very little bit of editing. I&#039;ve found that the Photoshop editing options that give me the best results with the least fiddling are Levels, Brightness/Contrast, and the Unsharp Mask. As far as I know, most photo editors have similar features.</p><p><br /></p><p>The camera, a Cannon, does a great job with color balance so the colors usually come out pretty true. It&#039;s also designed to self-correct for a little bit of camera shake, so often I don&#039;t even need to use a tripod... which never was true of my old camera.</p><p><br /></p><p>The pairs of images below show jpegs unedited and with just a very quick level adjustment and a sharpness tweak to make the images &quot;pop&quot; a little more. If I&#039;d used brightness/contrast instead of the level adjustment, the results would have been very similar.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]19458[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]19459[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]19460[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]19461[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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