J M Ross
Challenge 17
First I Imported the photo into Lightroom and added contrast, clarity. Used gradient adjustment to lower exposure on top half of the photo. Next step was to export the pic into photoshop. The first step in photoshop was to reduced the noise using noise ninja. Next I started cloning out the distracting objects in the background. The high exposure on the original blasted away the pillars so I rebuilt them by copying from other parts of the photo and cloning. There was no detail in the sky due to the over-exposure, so I masked out the skyline and dropped in a false sky. I left the sky pale so that it didn’t look to obvious. I also let the sky reflect in the water just to get so tone back. I reduced the redness on the faces using a hue/saturation layer adjustment. I then painted out some hot spots on the faces. Finally gave it a good amount of sharpening.
Time taken: 1.30 hrs
Challenge 17
First I Imported the photo into Lightroom and added contrast, clarity. Used gradient adjustment to lower exposure on top half of the photo. Next step was to export the pic into photoshop. The first step in photoshop was to reduced the noise using noise ninja. Next I started cloning out the distracting objects in the background. The high exposure on the original blasted away the pillars so I rebuilt them by copying from other parts of the photo and cloning. There was no detail in the sky due to the over-exposure, so I masked out the skyline and dropped in a false sky. I left the sky pale so that it didn’t look to obvious. I also let the sky reflect in the water just to get so tone back. I reduced the redness on the faces using a hue/saturation layer adjustment. I then painted out some hot spots on the faces. Finally gave it a good amount of sharpening.
Time taken: 1.30 hrs