Photography

When I started shooting, I didn’t know I was transferring my files wrong. I shot in RAW and I used the Canon Connect app to transfer to my iPad. The app had a bug that transferred everything in tiny files. We’re talking kilobytes here. Not knowing anything was wrong, I proceeded. I got some great images by doing extensive, overlaying masks. The shadow slider didn’t do much, but clarity, texture, exposure, and grain were very effective in directing the eye around the image. Honestly, I’m glad this happened to me, because I learned to make images with very low resolution look great. Now, with RAW files, I have so much more room to work. If you’d like to make these images look good, I’d suggest with pulling down the clarity and texture, experiment with masks, lean heavy into color grading, grain size and roughness, experiment with extreme adjustments in all areas, since nudges don’t do much. I also had some luck with over sharpening and then correcting with noise reduction. Most importantly, just don’t give up on the low res pictures. They can be made into captivating images. Our eyes and images and goals are all different so the main advice I can give is keep at it because it can be done. The super low resolution images were my portfolio for awhile. They got me work, and I’m still proud of them.