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FlakMunky

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Long time lurker, decided to sign up to participate. Been getting into photography over the last year or so. I have not done much post processing. I have played around with a few minor things in Gimp, but I just downloaded the Photoshop and Lightroom trials yesterday to try to learn a little bit before I buy copies of them.

For both of these, I just played around for a while trying out different things until I found what I thought looked cool. That's usually how I pick up things. Play with it until I break it, or I figure out what I am doing with it.

Bridge

Basic

Exposure +1
Recovery 90
Fill light 2
Blacks 2
Brightness +36
Contrast +27

Clarity 0
Vibrance -19
Saturation +100


Split Toning

Highlights hue 223
Saturation 100

Shadows Hue 47
Saturation 29

Balance +17


lake

Basic

Exposure +1.05
Recovery 42
Fill light 25
Blacks 1
Brightness +43
Contrast +100

Clarity 0
Vibrance +5
Saturation +100

HSL

Blue Hue +19
Blue Saturation +7
Blue Luminance -36

Other colors hues and saturation defaulted


Split Toning

Highlights hue 233
Saturation 53

Shadows Hue 159
Saturation 0

Balance 0


Sharpening amount 79
Radius 1.4
Detail 71
 
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twistedlogic

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Welcome to the forum FlakMunky!!!

I originally signed up to anandtech.com to join the CPUs and Overclocking forum, but now I stick around here. I got struck with the photography bug, :).


 
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FlakMunky

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Originally posted by: twistedlogic
Welcome to the forum FlakMunky!!!

I originally signed up to anandtech.com to join the CPUs and Overclocking forum, but now I stick around here. I got struck with the photography bug, :).
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Thanks. If I can get some time, I think I will try to play around with a couple other pictures in here. I have a few of my own that I wouldn't mind seeing what people would do with them. Maybe I will upload them soon.
 
Fardringle

Fardringle

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Originally posted by: Rufus12
Here's one for you: Text
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Nice shot! It was just begging for excessive saturation, so here's what I did with it:

click me

I'm not sure I'm completely satisfied with the results (it's still a bit hazy on the right side and the water is slightly more green than I would like), but it's not bad.


Lightroom settings:
Basic
Temp +2
Tint +7
Recovery 40
Fill Light 15
Blacks 12
Brightness -11
Contrast +37
Clarity +14
Vibrance +5
Saturation +14
HSL/Color/Grayscale
Green +60
Blue +67
Detail
Sharpening Amount 50
Sharpening Detail 50
 
Fardringle

Fardringle

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OK, here's a challenge. I actually posted this about a year ago for processing options but I thought I'd toss it in here since we have an official thread now. This is the only known recent photo of my wife's mother, aunt, and grandmother together so even a moderately usable result would be wonderful. Unfortunately, the person who took the picture did not use a flash so it is very dark (easily fixed), very yellow, and EXTREMELY grainy due to high ISO on a cheap point and shoot camera. I'm not expecting miracles, and I have a printed copy of the best result from last year, but I'd love to see what you folks do with it.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/Fardringle/IMG_0031.JPG



Edit: My wife wants a print of this photo of our daughter with her "trademark" grumpy face, but it has some pretty significant red eye. The red in her left eye is easy to remove, but the red in her right eye (behind her hair) is giving me trouble. I'm sure I could do it with layers in Photoshop, but I only have Lightroom. :(

If you can get rid of that for me without messing up her hair over the eye I'd be very grateful! :)

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/F...ngle/2008_12300103.JPG
 
Fardringle

Fardringle

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Originally posted by: Rufus12
Here's a PP job I did on one of my photos just now.
Before: http://farm4.static.flickr.com...35751_af9936e6c2_o.jpg
After: http://farm4.static.flickr.com...36245_4156c7f6b3_o.jpg
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That's not far off from what I would normally do with your shot, so I decided to have some fun with it and go for a postcard result:

clicky

Lightroom settings:
Basic
Exposure +.30
Recovery 2
Fill Light 24
Blacks 12
Contrast +86
Clarity +19
Vibrance +52
Saturation +36

Split Toning
Highlights
Hue 244
Saturation 55
Balance +21

If it was my photo and I really wanted to get it ready for printing, I'd also clone out that wire on the right side over the water, but that can take a while...
 
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twistedlogic

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Originally posted by: Fardringle
EXTREMELY grainy due to high ISO on a cheap point and shoot camera.
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The noise is from pushing the exposure to +4 in LR. I tried to recover, but there is just too much detail lost.

Originally posted by: Fardringle
The red in her left eye is easy to remove, but the red in her right eye (behind her hair) is giving me trouble. I'm sure I could do it with layers in Photoshop, but I only have Lightroom. :(
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Try the adjustment brush set on -100 Saturation, this will allow a ton of more control than the "red eye" tool. You can make the brush as big or little as you need to, and even erase (alt key) the adjustments mask if you go too far and hit her hair.

Gimp is a free PS alternative that can do layers, never tried it though.

 
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FlakMunky

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Here's one I took at my grandparents place last summer. I was browsing through a bunch of photos from there and did this with it myself. I am curious as to what others would do.

Exp -4
Recovery 63
Fill light 52
Blacks 11
Brightness 36
Contrast 12
Vibrance 14
Saturation 2

Green Hue/Sat/Lum 57/14/19
Aqua Hue/Sat/Lum 100/100/33
Blue Hue/Sat/Lum 38/5/0

Sharpening Amount/Radius/Detail/Masking 14/1/15+13
Noise Reduction Luminance/Color 52/62

Then a slight crop on the bottom and right side.
 
shortylickens

shortylickens

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Thanks for making an offical thread for this. I would have felt like a dork starting a new thread everytime I wanted some help.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/shortylickens/DSC_0626.JPG
Camera was a D40 but I'm sure you could get that from the EXIF.
This is Tasha-->Kady-->Heather.
Obviously it needs to be cropped and resized. Eventually I would like it at an 8x10 ratio for a glossy print. The new manager said he was cool with putting up new photos. Too many of the ones they have are generic Hooters pics and not Manassas girls.

Clearly I did not center it well and there is too much dead space on the top half. All three of these girls are equally pretty but some are obviously more photogenic. I dont care much for the warmth in the photo. These gals really arent so cold. I think thats an issue of the flash overdoing it. But without the flash things look like crap.

I would like the skin cleared up on the right girl (Heather). Have been using the Dust & Scratch tool for that sort of thing but obviously its not as good as airbrushing. Also if we could take some of the shine off her chin that would be cool.

Middle girl (Kady) has too much shine. I dont know if thats her makeup or the fact she was in the middle and the flash was pointed straight at her face.

Left girl (Tasha) looks good I think, but she is clearly more tanned than the other two.
Does that screw up my color balance, or do you think its all the wood and orange decoration commonly found in a Hooters establishment?
Also she has relatively sharp features for a young female. I think I need to take a variety of shots with her some day and see what her best angle is.

 
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Sorry I haven't really been around guys :(

It's hard being on the road and doing this stuff...
 
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OulOat

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Originally posted by: shortylickens
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/shortylickens/DSC_0626.JPG
Camera was a D40 but I'm sure you could get that from the EXIF.
This is Tasha-->Kady-->Heather.
Obviously it needs to be cropped and resized. Eventually I would like it at an 8x10 ratio for a glossy print. The new manager said he was cool with putting up new photos. Too many of the ones they have are generic Hooters pics and not Manassas girls.
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http://img5.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc0626.jpg

I use Lightroom since I'm don't have enough time to manual process each photo I take, so I'm sticking with it for your photo. I know that Photoshop will do a better job, but I think Lightroom does a good enough job for a general photo. The only thing I'm not sure about is the brightness, this is on a laptop that has the gamma cranked all the way up.

The changed settings are:
Recovery = 82
Fill Light = 21
Blacks = 5

Brightness = 10
Contrast = 37

Clarity = 20
Vibrance = 20

Point Curve = Medium Contrast

Saturation Red = 24

Luminance Red = 31
Luminance Orange = 29
Luminance Yellow = 45

Noise Reduction Luminance = 21
Noise Reduction Color = 21

I also use the dust filter option to remove two pimples.
 
shortylickens

shortylickens

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Its OK, but I got bored and did one of my own.
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/s...Tasha_Kady_Heather.JPG

I like this because its not too warm or dark. It just looks nice. Did it in Corel Photo Paint. It will fill out an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper nicely.
Still have the problem of too much dead space above their heads. Next time I need to have them cuddle together and then zoom in.
 
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Rufus12

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Originally posted by: scott916
Originally posted by: Rufus12
Here's one I did today.
Before
After
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I really really like that. What settings/software?
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First I made the original photo into an HDR using Photomatix, and then I did the rest of the editing in Aperture.

White Balance:
Temp=5935k
Tint=13

Exposure:
Exposure= -0.63
Recovery= 0
Black Point= 1.5
Brightness= -0.05

Enhance:
Contrast= 0.01
Definition= 0.62
Saturation= 0.85
Vibrancy= 0.24

Levels:
B= 0
G= 0.51
W= 0.92

Monochrome Mixer:
Red=10%
Green=65%
Blue=18%

Sharpen:
Intensity= 1.00
Radius= 3.15

Vignette:
Amount= 1.00
Size= 0.76
 
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scott916

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Very interesting effect. Thanks for being cool and showing how you achieved it. You guys are motivating me, I'll be out shooting as soon as my SD card comes in the mail. Anyone want to give the last one I posted a try?
 
shortylickens

shortylickens

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3 more Hooters pics.
I'll upload the corrections eventually.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/shortylickens/DSC_0707.jpg
Janet

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/shortylickens/DSC_0710.jpg
Janet & Jen

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/shortylickens/DSC_0716.jpg
Toni & Allison

Once again I mixed pale blondes with tanned brunettes and things didnt always work out the way I wanted. Also had some focus issues. I always take at least three shots of the same girl so I have a good one to choose from, but sometimes things dont work out.

Janet is insanely pretty but very camera shy. I had to bribe her with chocolate just to get the pics.

Jen is still pregnant and still having skin issues. But on the bright side her boobs should explode any old day now.

Toni is super babe'o'licous but I dont think I got the best photo of her. Will do a solo full-body shot when I can.

Allison is looking good as always but still pale. She says she has a skin condition and cant tan without getting burned.

FUN FACT:
Janet is only doing this to pay for nursing school. Her real job is driving an ambulance at night.
 
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