Fix-It Friday #71 - 4x4

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I did all my editing in LR3 today because, well let's be honest, there wasn't MUCH wrong with this awesome shot!! 

All I felt it needed was some creative colouring and maybe a bit of "pull & punch" to make it edgy...

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EDIT ONE

• Used Direct Positive LR preset
• Set recovery ~ +48, exposure .60, brightness -26, 
• dodged the dark side of his face to even out the tones
• burned the sky lightly with a creamy colour brush
• General punch
• sharpening;  +41, 1.2, 15, 60
• NR; 13, 89, 18
• Blacks -14
• Export.
• Publish to Flickr :D

(the sky is way too obviously dodged though, need to work on that ~ probably would do better with that in PSE/Gimp in reality).

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EDIT TWO

Working from Edit One

• Crop to 5X7
• Used Preset Heaven's Yellow-Green Tone
• exposure -1.33, contrast 83, Brightness 22, recovery 56
• General Punch 
• Scenic Sharpening
• Red Settings; luminance -73, Hue -36, Sat 41
• Export & Publish.

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EDIT THREE

working from edit one again

• Crop to 5X7
• applied Preset Heaven 'Wedding Look'
• auto tone
• dodged any darkness in his face and burned over brightness
• contrast -2
• Narrow edge (scenic) sharpen
• General Punch
• recovery 39
• Orange saturation -20
• PC Vignette 2 (changed feathering to 66)
• Vibrance -22
• Export & Publish

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EDIT FOUR

Of course there HAD to be a BW of this shot (working from edit three this time);

• Converted to BW
• contrast 52, recovery 52, Brightness 16, Exposure, -0.05
• Export & Publish

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EDIT FIVE

• From edit Four I just changed the shadow and highlight hues to give a greeny tinge (Shadow 37, Highlight 76)

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My personal critique of my edits this week;


Edit 1~ yucky sky - wish I'd left it alone!
Edit 2~ a little to orange
Edit 3~ DEFINITELY my favourite of the week!
Edits 4 & 5 ~ love them both, 5 wins it for the BW's. :)


What do you think?


POST-SCRIPT...


I read the 'do something about the sky' on iheartfaces, so I felt obliged to do so.
Not so easy in LR, so I took it into gimp, downloaded a sky from here; http://www.flickr.com/photos/leooosterloo/3812218298/
layered it over (set to darken only and lowered opacity), erased from everywhere but the sky (!!), merged down (Gimp 1), duplicated & set layer to 'screen' (Gimp 2). Applied a 'vintage effect' fu (set to screen and lowered opacity), framed. 
Done.


GIMP ~ 1

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GIMP ~ 2

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GIMP ~ 3

OK ~ so NOW my fave is GIMP ~ 3 ;D

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