Daily Archives: October 6, 2015

Sneak Peak on my composite with Kizuna

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First I have to say it's been a long journey working on this shot. I lost two month's worth work due to misreading the usage rights on a stock photo. But at least I caught it when I went back to double check.

I'm working on a pretty ambitious personal composite. The prior ones were a build up. Twilight Dancer (https://goo.gl/photos/MJ1RacLCg2h3tVcV9) was close but working on it I was still a bit unsatisfied. So when I got Kizuna I had a shot in mind but need to revamp the photo to a new environment more or less.

I think I'm at the point where the background (the untouched is in the album here) is worked on enough I can move onto getting Kizuna started on a photoshoot so I can integrate her into the background.

I'm hoping to get this out by the faceless Figure Friday challenge.

 

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Utilizing LightRoom's Curves 10

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Reading +Chang Su post (https://goo.gl/fUHj3G) on his Menma photo with flowers. I would recommend looking at LightRoom's Tone Curve. It's a pretty powerful setting.

TL:DR – look at the screenshot for the settings I used in LR

Lightroom does nondestructive changes (no physical changes to the original photo) ^_^

Chang has a great shot, the elements are there but I personally felt there could be more depth. I did a standard preset for the "punch" which added the Clarity to 20 and vibrancy a bit to 7 for the colors.

Next I took a look at the histogram and you can see a big bulk of the peak is group together. I set the curve (near the top right) whites near the highest peak. This brighten the image and did a slight curve to the darks (curve near the bottom left). This adds a bit more contrast, then I adjusted the sliders to take away some blowouts.