Fairly new here, and was hoping to get some feedback on one of my shots that I was going to order some prints of. I really like this shot of my wife, and it was just a random one I snapped while trying out a new lens.
I'd wanted to order a print to hang in my office, but I decided to play around with the post processing some. I realized that the original was pretty dank and dreary... not a lot of brightness to it.
Feel free to edit it however you wish... though please let me know what you did so I can try it out on the full scale one.
Original: pretty much everything on auto, did some custom WB, and ran Noise Ninja
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My edit: custom values in camera raw (used some of these: https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=95468), some shadow/highlights adjustment, Noise Ninja, and then some slight USM (10%, 60 radius).
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On the edit, the flesh tones look a lot better, but I think the shirt sleeve stands out too much. Could I duplicate the layer do like a selective mask on it? I tried playing around with the contrast and saturation on it, but couldn't quite get it to where it would look and non-distracting, but not heading back towards looking dreary.
