What’s Your Play #40
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Here’s my entry for What’s Your Play #40 -Water Wheel
Software: Lightroom 2
What I did and why:
I didn’t do too much editing on this aside from enhancing the colors.
- Deepened the shadows and brightened the high lights by tweaking the curves just slightly
- I loved the sky peeking through the trees so I boosted the blue just a bit
- I thought the ground was a little too yellow so I toned down the yellow to more of a brownish tone to enhance to earth
- Sharpened the image to bring out the detail in the rocks and trees
- Vignette to finish off
I didn’t crop this photo. The obvious crop would be to focus on the wheel. I thought about it but decided that I’d lose more than I would gain, especially because I loved the litle bit of sky but didn’t want to sacrifice the ground to do so. I like the scene as a whole very much, especially the frozen pond. So I figured that I’d enhance the feeling of the cold, crisp scene of a water wheel in winter than just a water wheel alone.
What’s Your Play #39 – Rings
What’s Your Play is hosted by Laura at Dolce Pics. She provides a SOOC (straight out of camera) shot and the folks post-process it and share the results. More info here.
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Here’s my entry for What’s Your Play #39 – Rings
Software: Lightroom 2 — one of the first times I’ve used LR and I’ve fallen head over heels in love with it. So powerful! So shiny! So… expensive. Ow.
What I did and why:
- I tweaked the color a bit, boosting the saturation and vibrancy in particular as well as the white balance. I had tried using an LR preset that I just didn’t find myself very happy with. Playing with the sliders and working with curves was more familiar and gave me a better result than the presets.
- I started playing around with the sharpening slider and was amazed at the difference it made in the detail on the rings. Wow!
- I tried a number of different crops but decided I liked this 5×7 one the best.
- After all was said and done, I added a slight vignette to finish it off.
Whee!
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