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The cause is improper lighting (exposure). Flash is very harsh and unflattering.
Diffused light alone or with strategically placed spotlights offer more options & better control.
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The human eye is accurate to a certain extent, but monitors are not necessarily accurate unless they're professionally calibrated regularly.
By @Jill_C
The human eye is best when it can compare. Therefore, you have these colour stripes of calibrated colours, when you're buying colours. And colour mixers use formulas and calibrated source colours to mix the tone you want to get.
If you buy wallpaper, then you have to pay attention to the production number, because only the same number guarantees exactly the same colour. If the individual tracks hang next to each other, you will see the smallest deviations. If you have different numbers, you have to make the transition in the corners. The differences are hardly noticeable.
When there is no reference, it is not easy to get the "correct" result. Calibration devices adjust the colours according to absolute values, so that, in a calibrated workflow (including the camera) every step of the processing produces the same result up to the printing. Well, the same result in the limits of the target gamut.
My opinion, if one could so easily rely on a histogram, then there would be a "Make Right Exposure" button.
But there is no such button and the human eye is much more accurate. Also, if I make a histogram like yours, the photos become quite dark. It doesn't seem quite right to me to rely entirely on digital readings. Rather, it's not even professional.
Objectively, if I do the "right "histogram", the white will be gray, not white, and the photo will just be dim.
By @dimag79683688
There is in Photoshop and Lightroom. It's called 'Auto'. The human eye is not so accurate at times. It all depends on how one perceives colour, light, and the monitor!
My opinion, if one could so easily rely on a histogram, then there would be a "Make Right Exposure" button.
By @dimag79683688
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Photoshop has automatic tools for adjusting Tone, Contrast & Color. However, I very rarely use them.
I prefer Levels or Curves Adjustment Layers as they offer more control. See screenshot.
And Layer Masks allow you to selectively adjust only those areas that require it.
As @Jill_C said, it's essential to calibrate your computer monitor's brightness and color settings to ensure what you're seeing is accurate. You may need to do this several times over the life of your equipment. See link below.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/394912/how-to-calibrate-your-monitor.html
Hope that helps.
Hello,
Don't you know that harsh light is trending right now? And also, don't I have the right to shoot the way I want? That's a very strange attitude.
By @dimag79683688
Harsh light is not trending - I don't believe it. Harsh light is bad in photography!!!! (Unless modern photographers don't know how to take properly exposed photos!) It causes unwanted shadows as shown in your examples.
You can of course shoot the way you want to by all means. Just don't expect Adobe to accept them and then wonder why they are rejected. The shadows are simply not good here- fact! Not to sell on the Adobe platform anyway!
Maybe other platforms don't care!
@Nancy OShea is right to point out the harsh light, and I dare say this is the main reason - exposure!!
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