First try with RAW

[Chris R/T]

I converted it to JPEG to post on the web and added the black border, otherwise, not much is done to this picture.

What could I do to improve it? I played with saturation, and colors somewhat, but I really am not familiar with how to PP RAW images, any help i can get would be great!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/ChrisACR/General/TestRAW.jpg

Canon D30(yes, old D30), Nifty, F1.8 1/25 ISO 100

[TByrne]

What a lonely little box. And that's the point, eh? With RAW, who needs it?

Thanks for sharing
Ted

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[rslv]

Raw conversion looks fine - maybe selectively bring down the reds, they seem to be bleeding.

You could crop off the bottom - to remove the background clutter, making a perfect gradient, and to move the subject from the center to the lower third. Bring in the sides to maintain the aspect ratio.

Burn the side and front of the TV, speaker or whatever it is the subject in on, to bring down the texture and to accentuate the "divine light" on the top.

[Chris R/T]

Raw conversion looks fine - maybe selectively bring down the reds, they seem to be bleeding.

You could crop off the bottom - to remove the background clutter, making a perfect gradient, and to move the subject from the center to the lower third. Bring in the sides to maintain the aspect ratio.

Burn the side and front of the TV, speaker or whatever it is the subject in on, to bring down the texture and to accentuate the "divine light" on the top.

I understand what you mean about the color, but I'm a little lost when you say "burn the side..." What are you talking about doing?

[rslv]

I understand what you mean about the color, but I'm a little lost when you say "burn the side..." What are you talking about doing?

I apologize. Assuming that everyone has Photoshop and knows the lingo is a bad habit.

"Burning" is a technique used to selectively darken an area of an image while retaining detail, as opposed to "dodging" which lightens. These techniques were adopted from film processing, but the terminology still applies to the Photoshop equivalents. Ehhh, yes...excuse my English.

Here's a quick edit I did to illustrate:

http://r2.drivehq.com/images/chrisrt.jpg

[Chris R/T]

Wow! Awesome! Thanks! :)

[mntbikejack]

What is that stuff called film used for? :D