Utatan jamelah e. Processed It This Way...
Because I'm procrastinating on this thing I'm supposed to be writing (not the statement of purpose, this other thing), I decided to give post-processing this image a shot. If you're interested, this is what I did:
1. Fiddled with levels and curves. Those are technical terms.
2. Decided on a crop.
3. Created a duplicate of the background layer, changed blending to overlay.
4. Created a duplicate of the overlay layer, changed blending to soft light.
5. Created a duplicate of the soft light layer, desaturated it. (I don't normally do so much with duplicate layers, but I was really procrastinating. Still am, actually. But I like what this does to the colors.)
6. Created a new layer. Selected the color from one of the bricks in the background, and used the paint bucket to fill the layer in. Set blending to soft light. Whee, textures!
7. Created a duplicate of this layer, fiddled with curves.
8. Created another duplicate of the original brown-ish soft light layer, desaturated it.
9. Created a new layer, put a white radial gradient over the faces, changed blending to soft light. Usually if I do this I'll change the opacity but I left it at 100% here because I'm just wild and crazy.
10. Added a little vignetting around the bottom edges.
11. The end.
What Would Utata Do?
Photo by: Ryan Brenizer
It's not about "right" or "wrong". There is no correct method or style of processing. Some folks even claim a great photograph is started in the field but finished in the darkroom. We're not sure whether that's true or false but we're pretty willing to experiment!
The project asks the question "If the (above) sample photo came off of your camera, what would you do?"
You can either do your usual "I do this to most of my photos" thing; or you can do your special "I do this when I need to make a shot more interesting" thing.
Reply here to show us what you did. Feel free to tell us how you did it, too (software, modifications, etc.).
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It's not about "right" or "wrong". There is no correct method or style of processing. Some folks even claim a great photograph is started in the field but finished in the darkroom. We're not sure whether that's true or false but we're pretty willing to experiment!
The project asks the question "If the (above) sample photo came off of your camera, what would you do?"
You can either do your usual "I do this to most of my photos" thing; or you can do your special "I do this when I need to make a shot more interesting" thing.
Reply here to show us what you did. Feel free to tell us how you did it, too (software, modifications, etc.).
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