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          +title: Photography notes

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          +

          +## General notes

          +

          +* I use Darktable for postprocessing RAWs.

          +* I shoot on a Pixel 6 Pro, mostly because it fits in my pocket and I usually take trips completely on a whim. (And the automatic processing it does is quite good, so I feel better about myself when I manually make something I like better, lol.) But, I'd like to get into film photography eventually, and on the digital side of things not being able to manually set focus has been a huge issue for me, so I might be looking at a DSLR purchase in the near future.

          +* I am completely OK with making creative postprocessing decisions that make the scene look slightly less true to life, if they result in an image that's nicer to look at.

          +

          +## General workflow

          +

          +* **Crop**: usually I try to nail down the composition I want as I'm taking the shot, but this doesn't always work out. I shoot and crop with a 3x3 grid guide and try to line things up to that.

          +* **Lighting**: Usually I'll adjust the exposure and black point (ignoring Darktable's warnings about not adjusting the black point) first, then if I don't like the result, use the "shadows and highlights" module for more fine-grained correction and white point adjustment.

          +* **Color**: At this point the image looks a little desaturated. Depending on how I am feeling, I'll either use the "velvia" module (extremely limited control over outcomes, but I often like the result - start with strength and adjust compression after), the "color contrast" module, or the "color correction" module. I don't usually have much success with adjusting global chroma but I'm probably doing something wrong.

          +* **Color, again**: I often take images in less than optimal conditions (e.g. cloudy day, sun is in the totally wrong place and it's impossible to get it to light my subject) so I frequently need to adjust colors further after adjusting saturation. I use the "color lookup table" module for this. I often will push a gray sky just a little bit in the blue direction, and will adjust other colors too if I think it'll make the result prettier (e.g. make bricks a bit redder). Here's an example:

          +

          +![Lots of color lookup table used in this example image.](https://social-tris-fyi.b-cdn.net/attachments/b5fe8d131d5454e8d3f7aa230e4d8228bbc2ad7adecf7f8a3ad4be6e4cd62fe2/PXL_20221221_212745800_01.jpg)

          +

          +## This page TODO

          +

          +* Darktable screenshots?

          +* Examples of photos at each stage

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	1	+---
	2	+title: Photography notes
	3	+---
	4	+
	5	+## General notes
	6	+
	7	+* I use Darktable for postprocessing RAWs.
	8	+* I shoot on a Pixel 6 Pro, mostly because it fits in my pocket and I usually take trips completely on a whim. (And the automatic processing it does is quite good, so I feel better about myself when I manually make something I like better, lol.) But, I'd like to get into film photography eventually, and on the digital side of things not being able to manually set focus has been a huge issue for me, so I might be looking at a DSLR purchase in the near future.
	9	+* I am completely OK with making creative postprocessing decisions that make the scene look slightly less true to life, if they result in an image that's nicer to look at.
	10	+
	11	+## General workflow
	12	+
	13	+* Crop: usually I try to nail down the composition I want as I'm taking the shot, but this doesn't always work out. I shoot and crop with a 3x3 grid guide and try to line things up to that.
	14	+* Lighting: Usually I'll adjust the exposure and black point (ignoring Darktable's warnings about not adjusting the black point) first, then if I don't like the result, use the "shadows and highlights" module for more fine-grained correction and white point adjustment.
	15	+* Color: At this point the image looks a little desaturated. Depending on how I am feeling, I'll either use the "velvia" module (extremely limited control over outcomes, but I often like the result - start with strength and adjust compression after), the "color contrast" module, or the "color correction" module. I don't usually have much success with adjusting global chroma but I'm probably doing something wrong.
	16	+* Color, again: I often take images in less than optimal conditions (e.g. cloudy day, sun is in the totally wrong place and it's impossible to get it to light my subject) so I frequently need to adjust colors further after adjusting saturation. I use the "color lookup table" module for this. I often will push a gray sky just a little bit in the blue direction, and will adjust other colors too if I think it'll make the result prettier (e.g. make bricks a bit redder). Here's an example:
	17	+
	18	+![Lots of color lookup table used in this example image.](https://social-tris-fyi.b-cdn.net/attachments/b5fe8d131d5454e8d3f7aa230e4d8228bbc2ad7adecf7f8a3ad4be6e4cd62fe2/PXL_20221221_212745800_01.jpg)
	19	+
	20	+## This page TODO
	21	+
	22	+* Darktable screenshots?
	23	+* Examples of photos at each stage