Rey using the Force

I met up with a couple of cosplay friends (Rey Dot Ham and Lena) to do some well-composed and dedicated photos. I'm not sure who this young lady was but she waited patiently for the rest of us to finish up and asked if I could take her photo. Patience pays off and I opted to work on the best photo of her.

 

I did a helluva lot of post-production (Photoshop and Color Efex Pro). List of what I did:

· removed the support strings for the "floating" rocks

· removed the strings on the rocks themselves

· blurred out most of the background (except for rocks, Rey, and handrails)

· used a Gradient Map layer to remove 91% of the color for everything except for Rey and the rocks (even that stupid orange zip-tie on her light-saber)

· added outer glow to Rey (just her arm which I faded out certain portions to remove the black outline of her arm and hand)

· added a stronger outer glow to the rocks (not 100% happy with them but it thematically works with Rey's arm)

· used Color Efex Pro - Pro Contrast / Film Grain / Whiteness filters

· ran the image through Dfine twice to minimize the pixelization in various areas of the image

 

Whew! I probably spent a good three-hours working on this as I had a vision of what it should look like and I got it there!

 

Comments are encouraged and welcomed.

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