Before & After - Show us your edits

[PeterHatt]

Advertisement (gone after registration)

My attempt at a day to dusk photo, trying  for atmosphere 

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

[Advertisement]

The Leica Q3 is available for pre-order at B&H Photo Video and Adorama

[evikne]

I have long been annoyed by the fact that my old lenses show an uneven white balance across the image. Faces in portraits have often been too cold, even when using an ExpoDisc. I have often resorted to selective adjustments to correct this.

Now I have found a very simple solution. I have always been taught to click the WB pipette in the center of the reference image. But I never compose my portraits with the face in the center of the frame; it is usually slightly to one side. By also placing the WB pipette a little off-center, I get a slightly different WB value that gives the face a more accurate color tone. Strange that I didn't think of that before!

I'm probably the only one who sees this as a problem, and very few people use an ExpoDisc for WB, but I'll just mention it anyway. I also know that there is something called “flat-field correction,” which would be an even better solution, but the procedure in LR seems a bit cumbersome, so I haven't bothered to look into that yet.

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

Edited July 28 by evikne

[hansvons]

3 hours ago, evikne said:

I'm probably the only one who sees this as a problem,

You are not. That’s one reason why I prefer modern Leica 35mm lenses like the ASPH or Summarit over Voigtlander. The Voigtlander 35mm lenses tend to render colder than their Leica counterparts. The 35mm Color Skopar renders at the edges visibly colder than at the centre to such extend that I found it borderline unusable. This gets better when stopping down or shooting B&W.

BTW, I shoot evening with a fixed WB at 5,600 K and a little bit of tint. I adjust WB and BB with the Levels tool in Capture One. That way, I get pretty good colour separation and skin tones. Where to pick the whites and the deep shadows does make all the difference. A consistent lens helps here a lot.

 

Edited July 28 by hansvons

[kkm]

In Capture One there is a tool for this problem : LCC

https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002583678-The-LCC-tool

[Einst_Stein]

Alaska

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

[costa43]

On 7/28/2025 at 7:08 AM, evikne said:

I have long been annoyed by the fact that my old lenses show an uneven white balance across the image. Faces in portraits have often been too cold, even when using an ExpoDisc. I have often resorted to selective adjustments to correct this.

Now I have found a very simple solution. I have always been taught to click the WB pipette in the center of the reference image. But I never compose my portraits with the face in the center of the frame; it is usually slightly to one side. By also placing the WB pipette a little off-center, I get a slightly different WB value that gives the face a more accurate color tone. Strange that I didn't think of that before!

I'm probably the only one who sees this as a problem, and very few people use an ExpoDisc for WB, but I'll just mention it anyway. I also know that there is something called “flat-field correction,” which would be an even better solution, but the procedure in LR seems a bit cumbersome, so I haven't bothered to look into that yet.

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

I use flat field correction on all my film scans as it evens out the slight backlight differences the scanning system I use gives me from time to time, especially noticable when there are darker shadow areas around the periphery. Once you have a calibration pic you are happy with, it's as easy as one click. As long as that calibration pic is at the beginning or end of your selection then all the pictures will be adjusted.

[evikne]

Advertisement (gone after registration)

17 minutes ago, costa43 said:

I use flat field correction on all my film scans as it evens out the slight backlight differences the scanning system I use gives me from time to time, especially noticable when there are darker shadow areas around the periphery. Once you have a calibration pic you are happy with, it's as easy as one click. As long as that calibration pic is at the beginning or end of your selection then all the pictures will be adjusted.

I should learn how to do this. Do you use LR or another program?

[costa43]

39 minutes ago, evikne said:

I should learn how to do this. Do you use LR or another program?

LR Classic for this purpose.