300

[Lord_Malone]

Messing around with some of the images I took from the wedding in Ethiopia earlier this year. I almost trashed this image, but I think the 300 (as in the movie) style edit saved it from the recycle bin.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1343/cag0736edityo5.jpg

[airfrogusmc]

Nice...
hey how you like'n that 24?

[thekid24]

what did you use to edit this LAWD?

[Lord_Malone]

Nice...
hey how you like'n that 24?

It's working out. Not as sharp as my old 35L, which probably spoiled me for life, but I'm making good images with it. I love the FOV on a 1.3x crop, so we'll see how she does on FF.

what did you use to edit this LAWD?

The effect + cropping was done in entirely in Lightroom. I used Noise Ninja and then resized and sharpened in CS3.

[Lord_Malone]

Here's another one for sh!ts and grins. Good night.

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/9657/737g0163editdm0.jpg

[tim]

Can you tell us more about the style, or provide a download link? Looks great!

[Lord_Malone]

Can you tell us more about the style, or provide a download link? Looks great!

I simply used the Lightroom preset "Aged Photo", boosted saturation in the red, magenta and green channels, adjusted the black levels and added a touch of vignetting. Cropped, cleaned it up a bit with Noise Ninja, resized and sharpened.

Okay, I'm going to bed for real this time. zzzzzzzzzzzz

[thekid24]

Looks good I need to try that...I have a different setting but this way might work too

[Lord_Malone]

Looks good I need to try that...I have a different setting but this way might work too

What setting/method would that be?

[thekid24]

What setting/method would that be?It may be too "dark" for a wedding

Using lightroom....

Exposure: +0.33
Recovery: 40
Fill light: 40
Blacks: 16 (adjust to your liking)
-------------------------
Brightness: +45 (adjust to your liking)
Contrast: +40 (adjust to your liking
-------------------------
Clarity: 50
Vibrance: +46
Saturation: -70
-------------------------
TONE CURVE
Highlights:0
Lights:+2
Darks: -2
Shadows: + 8
-------------------------
SPLIT TONING
Highlights
hue: 55
Saturation: 31
Balance: +53

Shadows
hue: 55
saturation: 0

[Lord_Malone]

Hmmm... Not too shabby. Here's the result of your "300" preset compared to mine...

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1343/cag0736edityo5.jpg

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/3189/cag0736edit2300v2filteros2.jpg

[thekid24]

I have it set as a Preset and adjust the contrast/brightness/blacks/recovery to different photos. Some tend to come out darker than others.

[Lord_Malone]

I have it set as a Preset and adjust the contrast/brightness/blacks/recovery to different photos. Some tend to come out darker than others.

Yeah, I used the baseline preset recipe you posted w/o adjustments, but I can definitely see the potential to tweak the image even further from this starting point. I saved them as user presets "300 (light)" and "300 (medium)" and saved yours as "300 (dark)". ;)

300 (light):

Temp: 12500
Tint: +35

Exposure: +0.75
Recovery: 0
Fill light: 15
Blacks: 11 (adjust to your liking)
-------------------------
Brightness: +57 (adjust to your liking)
Contrast: +25 (adjust to your liking
-------------------------
Clarity: 0
Vibrance: 0
Saturation: -71
-------------------------
TONE CURVE
Highlights: 0
Lights: 0
Darks: -3
Shadows: -14
-------------------------
SPLIT TONING
Highlights
hue: 0
Saturation: 0
Balance: 0

Shadows
hue: 0
saturation: 0

--------------------------
COLOR (adjust to your liking)
(Red Channel)
Hue: 0
Saturation: +100
Luminance: 0

(Green Channel)
Hue: 0
Saturation: +100
Luminance: 0

(Magenta Channel)
Hue: +25
Saturation: +25
Luminance: 0

-------------------------
LENS CORRECTIONS:
Lens Vignetting
Amount: -74
Midpoint: 20

[thekid24]

Yeah, I used the baseline preset recipe you posted w/o adjustments, but I can definitely see the potential to tweak the image even further from this starting point. I saved them as user presets "300 (light)" and "300 (medium)" and saved yours as "300 (dark)". ;)

300 (light):

Temp: 12500
Tint: +35

Exposure: +0.75
Recovery: 0
Fill light: 15
Blacks: 11 (adjust to your liking)
-------------------------
Brightness: +57 (adjust to your liking)
Contrast: +25 (adjust to your liking
-------------------------
Clarity: 0
Vibrance: 0
Saturation: -71
-------------------------
TONE CURVE
Highlights: 0
Lights: 0
Darks: -3
Shadows: -14
-------------------------
SPLIT TONING
Highlights
hue: 0
Saturation: 0
Balance: 0

Shadows
hue: 0
saturation: 0

--------------------------
COLOR (adjust to your liking)
(Red Channel)
Hue: 0
Saturation: +100
Luminance: 0

(Green Channel)
Hue: 0
Saturation: +100
Luminance: 0

(Magenta Channel)
Hue: +25
Saturation: +25
Luminance: 0

-------------------------
LENS CORRECTIONS:
Lens Vignetting
Amount: -74
Midpoint: 20


Sounds like a deal. Some of the perks of Lightroom....I really do like this program. Happy I could help.

[Lord_Malone]

Sounds like a deal. Some of the perks of Lightroom....I really do like this program. Happy I could help.

You're obligated to help until you pay me back the money you owe me! ;)

[thekid24]

You're obligated to help until you pay me back the money you owe me! ;)
*slowly exits....stage left even*