A Barn Owl to challenge your editing skills!
Mar 27, 2019 18:08:56 #
Used the Raw file with Camera Raw with the settings as pictured and ON1 Resize to crop
Mar 28, 2019 09:35:56 #
I'm a little late to this but thought it was a good challenge to see what I could get without too many tricks.
I use Photoshop for most of my edits but on this one you could get just about all of it done with Lightroom sliders. I attached a picture of my first settings. One thing that I wanted to point out is as I adjusted the Whites and the Blacks slider I watched the triangles in the upper left and right to stop moving the sliders just as the triangle lit up.
After the initial opening with Camera Raw I added a High Pass filter set to Hard Light and masked out all but the Owl to sharpen it.
Next I hit (Command + alt/Option key +Shift key + E) to place a new Merged layer on top. With this layer I opened Camera Raw filter and applied -30 Exposure, Contrast +7, Highlights +6, Blacks -4. To me this improved the overall contrast and brightness. I didn't want to change anything on the Owl so I added a white mask and painted black over the Owl so these last changes would not apply to it.
Jim
I use Photoshop for most of my edits but on this one you could get just about all of it done with Lightroom sliders. I attached a picture of my first settings. One thing that I wanted to point out is as I adjusted the Whites and the Blacks slider I watched the triangles in the upper left and right to stop moving the sliders just as the triangle lit up.
After the initial opening with Camera Raw I added a High Pass filter set to Hard Light and masked out all but the Owl to sharpen it.
Next I hit (Command + alt/Option key +Shift key + E) to place a new Merged layer on top. With this layer I opened Camera Raw filter and applied -30 Exposure, Contrast +7, Highlights +6, Blacks -4. To me this improved the overall contrast and brightness. I didn't want to change anything on the Owl so I added a white mask and painted black over the Owl so these last changes would not apply to it.
Jim
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My first settings (Could be done in Lightroom)
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Showing final layer set up
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Mar 28, 2019 10:35:57 #
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