Drummer Girl

SueEley (e2 Member)

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19 May 2012 - 5:42 PM

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Not an easy kind of photography. Difficult lighting and her face is not the most well lit element of the scene, so I would crop almost to the top of the left hand edge of the drum - this stops the drum dominating, I think, so we look at her face.

puertouk

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20 May 2012 - 12:21 AM

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Hi Ian, yes plenty to do to get this image looking like it should have turned out. First of all, you have plenty of noise in this shot, which you would expect at ISO 1600 with the camera you used. I put the shot into Photoshop camera raw, reduced some of the vibrance and saturation, as it had a red colour cast, especially over her face. I tried to reduce some of the noise in the dark areas by using luminance. I moved it into PS and copied the background layer. I then moved the microphone that was sticking out of her head with the patch tool, then went into the layers panel and added a new layer. I used the eye dropper tool to get the best area of skin that was not effected by the colour cast, set the blend mode to colour and painted over her face. In the layers panel > blend mode > screen > opacity 82%. Layers panel > new layer > eye dropper tool on part of her hair > painted the colour cast out. Finally I made a small crop. Phew! Hope you like the mod.
Stephen