CCF - Seth

This photo was posted by Farmgirl over at Life on The Farm for CCF: here's my edits. Hope you like! :D



Here's what I did;

In Gimp:

• healed his skin a little (not too much though)
• added a screen layer
• add a brown tint hue layer and made it a second screen layer (faded to taste)
• used smart sharpen
• repeated smart sharpen and faded out - lots! (this double sharpening made his eyes pop nicely)
• dodged the midtones all over his face (on a layer) and faded down to look more natural
• SAVE

In Lightroom

• auto tone
• punch

then to get the black & white (still in LR)

• switched to B&W mode
• strong contrast
• auto
• SAVE!

I was pleased with the result here, but it was a beautiful portrait to work on in the first place!