Lightroom blue colorcast11/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Photoshop and Lightroom both offer white balance features that you can run in batches. Just because you didn’t do a white balance (on a gray card or a white wall) before your shoot doesn’t mean you can’t fix it in post. I also ended up shooting on the gray walls, as they looked a lot like Annie Liebovit’z gray canvas. After going to extremes I realized that gray was the perfect color for me. When it was black (stupid decision) it was a pit from hell. When the walls were white, light bounced all around in my studio and it was impossible to control. It’s a paint I purchased from Home Depot and it was almost a perfect match to a gray card. When I owned my studio I painted all of my walls Dove gray. If your walls are blue, and the color of your strobes are slightly warm (yellow) then it’s understandable to get a purplish cast on your background. There is a distinct color cast to the image. Pulling the subjects off the background will help lessen the sharpness of the background and it will also help provide a sense of separation, and therefore depth. This is even more important when you’re shooting high key (light on light background) and everything will be seen. ![]() In my studio days, I would routinely have a subject placed 10-20 ft. Ideally, the subjects should be as far off the background as you can get them. This is the fact that you are shooting wide angle and the girls are really close to the background. ![]() There is one thing in the image that suggests you are working in a crowded space. This will improve the balance and fill some of the open space in the center of the photograph. They pose could be improved by moving away from a square and more toward a triangle. In order to achieve a higher level of commercial polish, I would ensure that the background doesn’t compete with the subjects – this means taking all of the wrinkles out either before the shoot, or in post. This is incredibly nit picky, I know, but this is something that I would have noticed in my own work, so I feel compelled to bring it up in yours. Three of the girls are looking at the camera and the little girl in the back right is looking somewhere off camera. But let’s address some things that could have improved the image. That being said, I think the fact that all of the children are looking toward the camera is admirable. Usually the attention span of a 5-year-old is about 30 seconds. They are all-day, grueling jobs with parents gawking and fussing and children losing interest fast. I have done jobs like these and I don’t envy you. Thank you for submitting this image for a photo critique Lisa, it’s always nice to be able to see a working photographer’s work and help with suggestions to make your, and other photographer’s, jobs easier. ![]()
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