Lighting Challenge

3rdPlanetPhotography

Here is a challenge for some of you looking for a challenge. I took this photo in my studio this week. This photo is dark (I think). Being that I'm still and always learning to post process I thought I could just lighten it with some curves. Well my problem is I don't know when to say when so I thought I'd throw out this challenge to my fellow dgrinners! See what you can do with the lighting and post it back.



I'll look forward to seeing what my friends can do with it.

kc7dji

4labs

kc7dji wrote:

Here is a challenge for some of you looking for a challenge. I took this photo in my studio this week. This photo is dark (I think). Being that I'm still and always learning to post process I thought I could just lighten it with some curves. Well my problem is I don't know when to say when so I thought I'd throw out this challenge to my fellow dgrinners! See what you can do with the lighting and post it back.



I'll look forward to seeing what my friends can do with it.

kc7dji

Not sure if this is any better but I tried.

bwg

basic steps were

1. cmyk curves to fix the skin tone
2. shadow/highlight to lighten up
3. lab curves for the pop
4. resize and USM

leebase

I don't mind it dark. I think it goes with the mood of the photo. I _might_ try to lighten the eyes a bit.

Lee

elfving73

Fun idea! Very interesting! Here is my go!

Regards / Matty

3rdPlanetPhotography

Very nice each of you who have edited the photo at this point. They look great. Lets see if any more chime in.


kc7dji

Sam

Ok, Ill play.

3rdPlanetPhotography

Excellent Sam... put that artistic touch on it.

Sam wrote:

Ok, Ill play.

jfriend

Nice one to play with

kc7dji wrote:

Here is a challenge for some of you looking for a challenge. I took this photo in my studio this week. This photo is dark (I think). Being that I'm still and always learning to post process I thought I could just lighten it with some curves. Well my problem is I don't know when to say when so I thought I'd throw out this challenge to my fellow dgrinners! See what you can do with the lighting and post it back.

I'll look forward to seeing what my friends can do with it.

kc7dji

Mostly just color corrected for skin tone using RGB curves, noise reduction with Neat Image and a little shadow highlights on the shadows. Could probably do some interesting sharpening of eyes, hair and mouth if we had the original, but not on this size.

Andyman

Here's my attempt:

bwg

jfriend wrote:

Mostly just color corrected for skin tone using RGB curves, noise reduction with Neat Image and a little shadow highlights on the shadows. Could probably do some interesting sharpening of eyes, hair and mouth if we had the original, but not on this size.

copy the url to the source pic, change the -L to -O

you must have had a long day, you're usually sharper than that

jfriend

Temporary brain fade

bigwebguy wrote:

copy the url to the source pic, change the -L to -O

you must have had a long day, you're usually sharper than that

Doooh! Temporary (hopefully, only temporary) brain fade!

Osprey Whisperer

Nice shot. My PS toying. :uhoh

erich6

bigwebguy wrote:

basic steps were

1. cmyk curves to fix the skin tone
2. shadow/highlight to lighten up
3. lab curves for the pop
4. resize and USM

Nice job on this touchup!

Erich

3rdPlanetPhotography

Andyman, How did you put that wave line behind her?

kc7dji

Andyman wrote:

Here's my attempt:

Andyman

It's been a few days but I'll do my best to remember exactly what I did.

01. First, I did the coloring/brightening etc with LAB curves 'n layers.
02. Make a new layer. Then, for the lines, I started by using the marquee tool and making several thin boxes going the height of the image.
03. Then I filled them in white. This is just to get your line. You could paint them with the brush if you like.
04. Then I used the filter Distort > Shear to give it the curves.
05. Then I used Edit > Transform > Perspective to shrink one side of it.
06. Turned it 90*
07. Turn the layer's blending mode to Soft Light.
08. Then erase the areas the white lines that are over top of the girl.
09. The end. You can do whatever else you want with it. I duplicated the layer with white lines and blurred it some.