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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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I spend way too much time processing the perfect picture... (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by komanaa@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I do architecture photography. The worse part is that I know the client probably won't notice the difference. How do you know when enough is enough?

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[–] keep_trying_username@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I'm an amateur, I don't do much architecture photography and I don't have clients so take it with a grain of sail, but I edit when there's a purpose i.e.

I almost always adjust highlights and shadows.
I do a white balance test, sometimes pics are better if they're white balanced but sometimes the "feel" is better if left alone. I keep the light red/purple etc. if it's concert photography.
Noise reduction if ISO was high.
Maybe a crop.
HSL only if I have a goal in mind. Maybe someone looks really cool in a photo and I want to give it a film look. Maybe I'm inspired to make the yellows pop. And then I'm done.

Otherwise, I'm just playing with settings.