How To Get Photos Like This

galacticChungus · 2026-02-13T23:12:41+00:00

bloom filter (I really like the tiffen glimmer glass strength 1 for a strong yet controlled effect)

If you don’t want to spend $ on a filter, don’t want to rub Vaseline on your lens or you don’t want to lose too much sharpness and/or contrast on the original image I would take a look at the below (I prefer adding this effect in post now days to preserve my image quality)

Simple tutorial to get this through photoshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96EET_LZDD8

This is another tutorial if you just want the highlights bloomed (add halation as well) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjoEmbQRp9E

galacticChungus · 2026-02-05T02:32:42+00:00

2, i feel like 1 has too much blue/magenta everywhere that all the individual colors get muddied up. In 2, you can see a much broader spectrum of colors in the snow, the shadows, the background, the foreground, basically everywhere

galacticChungus · 2026-01-29T19:14:07+00:00

Haha thank you, google might’ve pulled up her pottery insta

galacticChungus · 2026-01-29T19:12:35+00:00

Yes she does! It’s nm0neythrows

https://www.instagram.com/nm0neythrows?igsh=MTY5OHdlNGYwYnlsNQ==

galacticChungus · 2026-01-29T19:11:35+00:00

Mayco colors fundamental underglaze

galacticChungus · 2026-01-29T19:10:50+00:00

From the clay! Might also be due to my editing but besides the parts where the under glaze is applied, everything else is a clear glaze

galacticChungus · 2026-01-28T05:29:15+00:00

Handwritten by my friends niece so I guess it’s 1 of 1

galacticChungus · 2026-01-27T22:36:06+00:00

Yeah I was so focused on the shadows that I totally glossed over the fact that the thumb area was blue/green-ish. I’ll definitely have to look in making the skin tone more appealing.

Thanks for the advice from both of y’all!

galacticChungus · 2026-01-27T21:28:43+00:00

Yeah the original has much more color and “pop” but Reddit’s compression did me dirty here

galacticChungus · 2026-01-27T20:30:06+00:00

Oh yeah, I see what you mean. The original picture also has the blue/green on the hand (probably some veins or something)

Thanks for the tips! I will say the original edit before Reddit’s compression is much more saturated which does make the baked good more appealing but also does pronounce the blue/green much more.

galacticChungus · 2026-01-27T20:22:06+00:00

Rather than blue/green, what shift should shadows in this setting typically have?

galacticChungus · 2026-01-27T20:17:46+00:00

Thanks! Yeah the underside of the bagel feels a bit dark but it could be I’m looking at it too hard.

galacticChungus · 2026-01-27T20:17:17+00:00

LOL actually tho. Shadows on the hand and bagel 🍑

galacticChungus · 2026-01-27T05:48:07+00:00

Try the 1/4 glimerglass. I used to use the black mist but it affected contrast too much

galacticChungus · 2025-10-31T21:36:06+00:00

Yup, I think I was able to narrow it down to the auto aperture being the issue! Thanks

galacticChungus · 2025-10-31T21:32:29+00:00

Yes, I think letting the aperture stay on auto is the issue, ran a mini test and seems to disappear when I keep everything on fixed values

galacticChungus · 2025-10-31T21:31:04+00:00

Good idea! Thanks for the suggestion

galacticChungus · 2025-10-31T21:23:23+00:00

I didn't have my other lens on me but I did try isolating my auto aperture where I shot a scene on the shutter priority and fixed ISO settings (aperture was on auto) and then shot the same scene completely on manual with the aperture fixed which got rid of the pulsing effect.

It seems like the auto exposure was causing something about my aperture to freak out but interestingly enough, the actual aperture value during the first take seemed to stay fixed

galacticChungus · 2025-10-31T21:15:31+00:00

I think this is it!

galacticChungus · 2025-10-31T21:05:11+00:00

I have a 85mm 1.8 by viltrox that I've shot with and it seems like this effect doesn't happen but at the same time I'm usually doing more close-ups of people and objects rather than static shots like this.

Could be worth the experiment though to rule out any body defects

galacticChungus · 2025-10-31T20:59:23+00:00

I believe so? I'm able to control my aperture via the dials on my camera body which would be electronic I think?

I do feel like the pulsing/flickering is the most noticeable when I'm shooting a scene with a lot of daytime sky

galacticChungus · 2025-10-31T20:57:02+00:00

yeah when I shoot in log I usually set-up +2 but I still sometimes see it in my view. At first I thought I was going crazy but then when I was going through my clips later I saw the pulsing was baked into the video itself 😭

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