ACSheff2014
f/2.8
I did a shot like this a while back when I first got my 50mm, and a few days ago I was looking back through my photos and found it. I had a few problems, and since it was just the piano that sits in our living room, I just went out and shot it over. I used some new editing techniques and it amazes me how much you can do in photoshop once you know how to use it. I actually was lucky enough to catch a rebroadcast of Brooke Shaden's workshop on CreativeLive recently, and I came in right when she was talking about editing (yes, that's where I got the idea to try doing expansions, more on that later). for a while now, to do selective burning/dodging I have created an overlay layer, and just painted it with white and black. but the limitation of that is that it literally just paints black over your image. I couldn't figure a way around that except to process my RAW file several times and use layer masks to do the job. but that is very time and memory consuming. when I saw what Brooke did, I just went "D'oh!". it was so obvious that I had totally forgotten about it! what she did was just do a loose freehand lasso selection over the part that needs to be darkened/lightened, then feathers it. then you can just use the curves tool, which is much more versatile because you can fine tune the exposure change a bit more than by just painting an overlay.
f/2.8
I did a shot like this a while back when I first got my 50mm, and a few days ago I was looking back through my photos and found it. I had a few problems, and since it was just the piano that sits in our living room, I just went out and shot it over. I used some new editing techniques and it amazes me how much you can do in photoshop once you know how to use it. I actually was lucky enough to catch a rebroadcast of Brooke Shaden's workshop on CreativeLive recently, and I came in right when she was talking about editing (yes, that's where I got the idea to try doing expansions, more on that later). for a while now, to do selective burning/dodging I have created an overlay layer, and just painted it with white and black. but the limitation of that is that it literally just paints black over your image. I couldn't figure a way around that except to process my RAW file several times and use layer masks to do the job. but that is very time and memory consuming. when I saw what Brooke did, I just went "D'oh!". it was so obvious that I had totally forgotten about it! what she did was just do a loose freehand lasso selection over the part that needs to be darkened/lightened, then feathers it. then you can just use the curves tool, which is much more versatile because you can fine tune the exposure change a bit more than by just painting an overlay.