Today is constructive feedback over at I ♥ Faces. This shot is from the engagement shoot that I did with my brother and Mollie last summer. It was getting dark and the lighting was just not the best. I am not sure what to do to improve it. Some of my shots from this same time of day turned out really well and others not so much. They just seem so washed out. I have not done any editing to this photo and it was taken on my 35mm camera.
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I would definitely use the burn tool to darken the background and use the dodge tool to lighten up the couple also. Then I would enhance the greens, and then kick up the contrast a bit too. Totally Rad Actions has a Yin/Yang action that would work wonders with this image!
Hey Sonya! I'm a new contributer for iHeartfaces, and anything with boxing in the title, I have to check out. My husband trained years ago in boxing for the Olympics, then we got pregnant...now he's into MMA style.
Anyway, NOT why I am here, but I felt a little bond....LOL
OK, here is where you can correct the photo before you take it. Step back to make sure you have more of the people IF POSSIBLE. Sometimes it's not. Try turning the camera so you have a vertical shot which allows for more of the people as well.
Here is a link to the photo I corrected AND very simply how I corrected it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/danasphotography/3707248046/
I used my "soft light" trick which is so simple to do and all the instructions are there to copy it.
Thanks for letting me play with your photo! Good luck!
Stopping by to say hello. Your blog is so cute and so is your family. I'm Alicia from S.C, nice to meet you. :)
Good news - "washed out", "hazy" is usually an easy fix. There are several ways to accomplish the same thing, which is essentially adding contrast. In levels, you could pull the blacks and whites in. In curves you can do a simple S curve (pull up the lights, pull down the darks). In Lightroom you can do a simple Clarity boost. Or you could just use the contrast slider (boost it up). Each of these steps would capably remove the haze.
I am a terrible editor of pictures : ). I am think I would crop the road out. And then I would do what everyone else said : ) Good luck!
I am not familiar with the controls of PS since I use Corel PSP, however, PSP has a function called "Fade Correction" that pretty much eliminates haze in photos (if PS doesn't have a one click fade corrector, then Adobe's programmers are silly, silly people). After that, a few simple adjustments for brightness bring up the shadows and dark colors a bit.
(I've got nothing against PS other than price and the few times I've used it, it's seem a little counter-intuitive. I tend to think if I could afford PS, I'd wind up using both because they both have their strong points - PS has a lot more fine-tune control, but PSP makes a lot of your basic edits, like fade correction, simple to achieve prior to taking it to PS for the fine tuning.)
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