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Time of Day?

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Posted by John Wiker on April 1, 2012 at 1:16 PM
Kind of curious, when do you do most of your post processing, during the day or at night. I find that doing any kind of processing at night I get very tired very quickly, and it's not because I've been up all day. I just feel my way of seeing is much different during the day than at night. Any thoughts? :confused:
Posted by Paul Breitkreuz on April 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM
John, there is a lot to be said for TOD for us to perform any tasks in most cases. For the most part there are people that work at their best during the first half of the day, and others with the opposite biological clock do much better late afternoon or even peak at night time.
I find that I can process best between 10am to about 4pm. If I work images out of those time brackets I usually will go back and visit those images during my peak time to verify the processing was what I wanted. I usually wind up tweaking the images a bit upon most revisits in the end.I think in my case my eyes are the weak spot and can fool me more often then I like when processing.
Just my thoughts on your question..... :cool:
Posted by David Bostedo on April 1, 2012 at 3:56 PM
I definitely seem to work with photos in the evening best... Most of that is based on when I have available time, but I do tend to not be a morning person.

The only thing I'd say to watch out for is that if you work in drastically different lighting conditions at night versus the day you could find yourself editing things differently between the two times. If possible, keep the light level similar no matter when you're editing.