Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. - Ansel Adams

Friday, July 24, 2009

Fix-it-Friday Week 21

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•Original
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•My edit
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-Cropped
-Corrected color cast
-Lightened eyes
-Removed some extra color casts that remained throughout the face
-Sharpened
-Blurred background


•My second edit (all steps added onto my first edit)
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-Slight skin smoothing
-Removed blue/cyan from his hair and suit
-Dodged/Burned background and areas of face
-Boosted eyes a tiny bit more


*Photo credit to: Cayle Ngo

17 friendly comments:

  1. Thank you for the comment, I like yours as well! Nice to meet you, it's always good to have other photographers to converse with :)

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  2. Thanks, Jeni! And you're welcome.
    Nice to speak with you as well :)

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  3. Love the details from the first edit. Freckles really stand out! Great job.

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  4. Thanks, Mandy! I like his freckles a lot. Freckles are so cute!

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  5. You did an awesome job on the color correction! I also like that you kept the freckles.

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  6. I like the first one. clean and sharp. the second is too frothy for me. Is frothy a word? ;)

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  7. Your subtle changes really enhanced the photo while keeping it natural looking. Great edit!

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  8. Thank you Catharine and Tara!

    I don't know if frothy is a word or not. We'll just pretend on the chance that it's not *lol*

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  9. Beautiful! I love the second one.. so perfect :)

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  10. Very nice Misty. I like that you removed the color cast from his suit. I would not have thought of that.

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  11. Thanks, Wenderful! I didn't even notice it on his suit until I started to edit the first photo a little bit more & seen that he had the blue/cyan in his hair & went to remove it.

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  12. Both edits are wonderful! I can't choose which I like best. You have done a fantastic job!

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  13. This is great! You did an awesome job with removing the color casting especially in his right eye! Must have taken you forever! Nice work : )

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  14. great edits and i appreciate the way you tell us step-by-step what you did. that helps me learn :)

    my edits are posted, too. feel free to come on over for a visit anytime :O).

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  15. Thank you Kate, Caroline and Alice!

    It didn't take too awful long to remove the casts. I've learned a lot while nosing around on the internet looking for different techniques. There are lots of helpful people out there willing to teach you!

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