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Figure Friday Challenge – Urban 3

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Finally my first shot with Smart Doll Kizuna Yumeno. This composite has been a long time in the making. I already had a picture in my head for Kizuna’s first photo when I first received her.

Been working on it on and off for the past 4 months. I wanted an abandoned urban look to it. The main hold back was compositing a completely brand new background. My prior composites have been “light” edits to stock photos backgrounds compared to this. Large changes such as water, adding vegetation, and completely new lighting added complexities. Original untouched stock here if you’re interested (https://goo.gl/IjFePN)

I also lost two month’s worth of 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 ended up using a completely different stock photo for the background.

Another difficulty has been posing Kizuna in a natural pose. After photographing figures who have their poses predetermined was something I took for granted. I have a ways to go on posing but this was the closest natural post I can do for the moment.

I have to thank +Danny Choo for the Air Stand, that definitely helps with keeping Kizuna’s pose when I was photographing her. Enjoy all!

#kizunayumeno #smartdoll #urban #figurefriday

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.