Butcher

by bigcog

I am hoping for some critique if possible. Someone is writing an article on local businesses in my village and I have been asked to do some interior shots.

The space is tight and this was the best that could be achieved. My tripod was mounted on a freezer. I don't have a decent flash so the best result was with available light. Custom white balance/AWB was no good on account of 3/4 light sources. The original shot made our faces too red. So I have PP dropped the Red part of the RGB and adjusted the blue/green ever so slightly, and upped the brightness. I have cropped the top slightly even though it chops the head there was a more annoying striplight to get rid of. All round compromises, the faces need to be better lit but see what you all think.
Uploaded26/01/2009 - 14:21
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davidtrout
Posted 26/01/2009 - 15:21 Link
Its a good shot to illustrate a news article. Detail of the items on sale are well shown and the picture is animated by the three people in it - the butcher in sales mode, the young man buying the joint of beef and the little girl in a typical pose. The colour balance looks fine to me.
david
MattMatic
Posted 26/01/2009 - 15:46 Link
Comments left on thread: here.
http://www.mattmatic.co.uk
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jackitec
Posted 26/01/2009 - 19:41 Link
Looked at the thread sorry, I think the original is fine I know the problems with different lighting.
shim
Posted 27/01/2009 - 18:35 Link
Matt you've made the butchers right arm disappear and he looks sick?
I too thought the original looked fine. It looks like a proper shop
interior.

shim
bigcog
Posted 27/01/2009 - 22:05 Link
thanks for feedback, especially from David Trout, the "young man" is me and I'm 40 so I'll take the compliment. this is going to be my first picture in print, albeit just a newsletter for the friends of nidderdale AONB. the design company will probably tweak it anyway. I did through this realise that even if the white balance is tricky, then the in-camera affects can be used to alter colour, and using the green setting seeming to help this pic a little in one test I did.
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