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Converting .CR2 raws to non-raw image format with ImageMagick mogrify makes images warm
You're never seeing "THE raw image" on your screen. What you're seeing is a conversion of the raw data into a demosaiced color image with white point, black point, white balance, contrast ...
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Can software auto-detect image focus?
I have a similar problem. I take pictures of the moon, and I need to choose the sharpest ones for stacking.
As the images are very similar to each other, it is easy to compare.
I was shooting with a ...
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What type of editing is necessary to achieve this type of watch photo?
When your photograph looks like it has a grey tone, or seems like you're looking at it through a fog, it means that very few of the pixels have the darkest values. In your photograph, 99% of the ...
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What type of editing is necessary to achieve this type of watch photo?
I think that rather than starting from the post-processing, you should consider another lighting approach.
If you look at the images you posted as examples of what you want to achieve, they all have a ...
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What type of editing is necessary to achieve this type of watch photo?
Move your lights lower relative to the cone, or move them farther away.
The two options will have different effects... to understand them it is easier to think of it in terms of creating the ...
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How to avoid reflection in watch photos?
When you light a reflective subject I find it better to think entirely in terms of creating the environment the object will reflect, rather than in terms of "lighting." And when you think in ...
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What type of editing is necessary to achieve this type of watch photo?
You might be surprised by how good the simple 'Auto Tone' command is in Photoshop [Image menu].
It's always worth giving it a go before getting into any more detail. Sometimes it just gets it right ...
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What type of editing is necessary to achieve this type of watch photo?
To me, it is just that you dial is over-exposed, easy to fix with the Curves tool of your editor:
In other cases, just using the contrast tool could be easier, but here this would blow out the ...
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How to avoid reflection in watch photos?
The Rolex photo was not taken with a cone. You can see that because of the gradients of the reflections which show some rectangular zones.
But leaving that apart, you can put some pillar below the ...
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