Do you do it? Its so over done but I cant not do it for some

>>3040208
cheap instagram esq filter, unless your going for that type of look

It has nothing to do with being over done or not, it is simply preference of how you want your tones to look and how much colour you want in your shadows

>>3040239
i would then say to only apply that style of tone to certain photos that would benefit the blacks/shadows being brought out like that.

me personally i would use that type of tone when the shadows are the main focus of the image or a majority of it.

>>3040245
> i would use that type of tone when the shadows are the main focus of the image or a majority of it.

agreed. Why did you bring your point back to
the right side though instead of just lifting your
blacks? just curious

>>3040208
trump won the election so it's only patriotic to crush the blacks

>>3040251
nice meme my dude

>>3040208
No, I actually like to crush the blacks.

I'm a terrible racist though.

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>>3040208
I'll bogpill you all now on raised blacks; the only reason people do this is because of how contrasty and oversaturated iPhone screens are. You have to do this to make things look natural on the platform 99% of your audience will consume it on.

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>>3040618

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>>3040618

I thought everybody did this:

> transfer from camera to computer
> edit on monitor till it looks good there
> transfer to phone
> always looks underexposed
> fuck around with instagram sliders until it looks good on phone
> post

>>3040631
If it looks different on mobile, it may be that you need to change your colour profile.

>>3040208
>overdone
you use this word because you're a faggot hipster, there is no other reason to say it.

Dark areas of a photo automatically have the worst signal-to-noise ratio of the image. A low signal-to-noise ratio is distracting, artificial-looking (the human eye does not have CMOS sensor shadow banding in darkness) and already ruins any subtle textures in the shadows already.

The advantages of crushing the bad signal regions are there in nearly every single image as it's just how electronic sensors work, whereas the photos where texture in a nearly pitch black region must be kept are easily less than 1-in-100.

You might as well continue your faggotry by calling other smart decisions overdone
>IN-FOCUS faces are overdone!
>highlights that aren't completely blown out are overdone!
>using shallow depth of field so there isn't a hideous distracting crowd behind the person? Completely overdone!
>shooting at less than ISO128,000 for a day shoot? OVERDONE!
The real solution is to sell all your cameras if you're a special snowflake too retarded to simply do things correctly and make non-shit work.

>>3040674
>The advantages of crushing the bad signal regions are there in nearly every single image

OP is talking about raising blacks, not crushing them

>>3040618
iPhones are IPS and calibrated.
Your laptop has a shitty display.

Guess which screen will resemble a printed picture.

>>3040706
The tone curve in OP's pic is both about keeping the shadows down and raising the blacks at the same time.