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Apr 26, 2011 23:23 |  #1

I was looking through some of my wedding material from a while back. I was sifting through some of the previously 5 stared pictures and thought man I sucked at editing at the time. I have really grown in the last little while, what about you.

Just to be clear this isn't supposed to be "before" as in flat from RAW right out of camera, it is supposed to be a picture that you went back and touched up after looking at it some time late.

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Another one, don't even ask me what I was thinking here...

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Apr 26, 2011 23:53 |  #2

I'm pretty new to editing, so all my stuff kinda sucks right now... but I'm sure I'll post something when I get better. I like the 2nd edit of pic #2. How did you get that look?


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Apr 27, 2011 00:10 |  #3

There were a few steps taken, first i scrapped the first edit and went to back to basics. The sky looked great but the dress was quite dark so i pushed the fill light on Lightroom to 100, then i boosted the blacks until i got the contrast I was looking for.

I had a few colour issues so i adjusted the saturation in the orange, yellow, green and blue sliders under the HSL section. I had to drop the yellow saturation quite a bit to get the dress to come out more or less white. The beauty of HSL is you can tweek only a specific range of tones. In this case there were some yellow tinges in the dress i didn't like so take the yellow saturation down in the HSL solved this problem.

Then it was looking better but the balance of the dress to everything else wasn't right. I took an adjustment brush and darkened the sky because the fill light brightend it more than I wanted. With the same adjustment brush i boosted the saturation a little to pop the sky. Make sure you click auto mask! It is a life saver of time.

A few other minor tweeks and it was finished. I am much happier with the second result, again I have no idea what I was thinking on the first one.



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Apr 27, 2011 02:00 |  #4

That second shot is a prime candidate for our RAW Conversion Thread -- check it out!


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Apr 27, 2011 02:25 |  #5

I like this idea...

Here's a car picture...a Ford Popular 1958. I was looking for details rather than full cars, too many people about. So this is what I came up with. Taken June 2010.

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Ford Popular 1958 (external link) by http://bendthelight.me​.uk (external link), on Flickr

The I revisited quite a while later and did this...this was February 2011 (and won my club B&W competition).
IMAGE: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5219/5422349573_4469435253_z.jpg
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Ford Popular 1958 BandW as 8by10 (external link) by http://bendthelight.me​.uk (external link), on Flickr

8 months of learning between the two. Hope it shows! ;)



  
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