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try to figure out whats wrong with the background shadows
tone curve is fine
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Please provide the following basic information:
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lightroom 10.4
mac os mojave 10.14.6
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Okay, so what is "wrong" with these shadows? I'm not seeing it.
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Your curves histogram indicates that the image is clipping the shadow end. So, fair chance you're seeing noise. With some cameras this can appear as banding and/or posterisation.
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Looks like lens bokeh, but it's barely visible in your screenshot. As Ian Lyons mentions try applying some Luminace Noise Reduction, which may be causing bokeh artifacting in the shadow area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh
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tone curve is fine
Meaningless, that is just an artificial constraint, that curve until you touch it would be a straight diagonal line, turned into a curve because you modified it. The line does not show an issue. Oh modifying it could cause an issue. (actually, mods shown are minimal, heaviest mod far right accomplishing nothing)
The histogram behind the curve, does show a heavily clipped photo in the blacks and shadows.
Before working with curve, go and see if you can recover some shadows in the basic panel, see if you can correct the black point.
If the shot is not RAW, forget all that.
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If you mean what is wrong with the dark background and shadows - look at the the histogram!
Like others said, go back to the basic panel after resetting the point curve.
Just do this for a test to see if the image improves overall.
Try the shadows slider - you will probably get noise.
Check your overall exposure too.
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ok so i updated the mac os from mojave to catalina and it seems to be fixed.
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great news!