This first photo comes from a series of bubble blowing pictures. This one I cropped to just the bubbles in Adobe Lightroom and optimized the white balance, tone (exposure, contrast, highlights/shadows, & whites/blacks), and presence (clarity, vibrance, & saturation) controls to bring out the refraction colors in the soap bubbles.
I've actually been doing basic tonal adjustments like this on most of my pictures throughout the class, so I figured I would try something a bit more extreme for this assignment. So here is another picture from the party I call "Portrait of my son as the young Lord Krishna" :)
I increased the contrast and bumped up the saturation a bit for the picture as a whole and then used Lightroom's Adjustment brush to "paint" my son with a different white balance.
The "portrait of my son…" Is absolutely awesome. I am a fan of abstract photography and am drawn to works that people push beyond typical. This portrait is an excellent example of that.
ReplyDeleteIt is awesome how today's Cameras are able to store so much information, that you can pull that information forward with postproduction adjustments and filters. What probably appeared as a rather flat and bland photograph can be adjusted to reveal amazing colors and depth.