Soccer Groom PP Advice

Just looking for some PP help. I was going for making the highlights look yellow so it would give the images a sunny look for a blown highlights look. c&c obviously

I'm thinking you could go a little more, if you wanted. You've got a little vignetting happening, with the guys on the edges being a little underexposed compared to those in the middle. Maybe take a brush and add a little fill light to the two guys on the edges and I think it looks fine. Maybe tone down the yellow channel in the grass, just a hint, not too much.

Here are a few things I would consider

Easy to do
- use the Clone stamp tool in PS to fill in / fix the areas missing grass
- reduce the Green luminance slightly - this will lessen the shininess of the grass

Worth considering
- I think moving the highlights / whites sliders around a bit (possibly highlights down a lot with whites up a tiny bit) would reduce the brightness of the overall image (hard to tell without the raw file)
- I might add a bit of blacks / contrast
- I think the two pasty white guys on either side of the groom look a little too pasty white

Fun
- if you PS skills are good, I think I would try and do something fun with like moving the ball forward and having the shadow of the mas camera left to the groom heading the ball (change his shadow a bit to create a heading action)

wallstreetoneil wrote in post #17577338
Here are a few things I would consider

- reduce the Green luminance slightly - this will lessen the shininess of the grass

wow thanks that helped

DThriller wrote in post #17578096
wow thanks that helped

your welcome

if you haven't done so, it is worth spending about 1hr, when you have time, and then load a few different pictures, and then one by one, move the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance sliders all the way left and then right to see what happens

there are some surprising results / slightly counter intuitive at first - but it is worth having these techniques at your disposal

I very often in environmental portraits move the green channel, both Saturation and Luminance, up when I have used a Large Aperture (makes the bokeh pop more) but do the opposite in situations (especially with Luminance) when I use smaller apertures (similar to your picture) - doing so sort of mimics a Polarizing filter as it takes the reflection out of the greens.

Im loving the orange slider for bringing back a little skin tone that over exposed

It gets the grass green also

It was kinda a hard location. Luckily they were super fun people