Portraits

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Strike a Pose: Portrait Bannack: 3/22/11 11:48pm; Bannack; f 5.6 1/50

In camera Raw I adjusted the usual. Levels, clarity, contrast, and sats. The saturation really made her red hair and blue eyes pop which I love. Then in Photoshop I got a little carried away with the brush tool. I painted out her blemishes and also the slight bags under her eyes with a lower opacity. Her lips then looked a little pale (probably from the cold!) so I gave them a bit more color with the brush tool as well.

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Portrait 2: 3/22/11 2:48pm; Bannack; f 4.0 1/400

I liked this portrait but it was a bit overexposed. I shot a lot of my shots in RAW so the mistake was pretty easy to correct in camera RAW. I adjusted the brightness, levels, clarity, contrast, and saturation. I then also decided the crop the picture. I then brought it into Photoshop and used the brush tool to even out some of her skin tone and a few spots of her eye makeup. I made the mistake of not focusing on her eyes when I took the shot, so I selected them in Photoshop and used smart filter to take away some of the blur. I then used the brush tool with a lower opacity and went over her lips with a slightly darker pink.

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Portrait 3: 2/22/11 12:36pm; Bannack; f 3.5 1/60

The only thing I did to this photo was take it into camera raw to adjust the levels and saturation.

Action Blur & Freeze

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Ghost Shot: 3/22/11 1:15pm; Bannack: f 20 8.0 t1i canon tripod

Original:
This shot was taken in Hotel Meade with my photogenic ghost Adam. I adjusted the photo in RAW adding a lot of contrast and lowering the brightness so I could get a creepy darker look. Then in photoshop I added a bit more saturation and selected the floor and walls just before the light in the hallway. Having made my selection I then went to Image-adjustments-exposure- and played with Offset which makes it look like the darkness is crawling from the floor up the walls.
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Snowball: 3/22/11 4:43pm; Bannack: 5.6 1/4000 t1i canon
Edited:
This is my freeze shot, sadly it’s the best one I got all day. I cropped the photo slightly in Raw, adjusted the levels and contrast, and I also changed and brought down the saturation of the glove which was bright red. I found that it caught my eye and I wanted more focus to be on the snowball. The snowball

Reverse Shallow Depth

Fence by Mill: 3/22/11 4:41pm; Bannack: f 5.0 1/2500 t1i canon

I adjusted the levels and added 10 points of saturation in Photoshop.

Forgotten Saw: 3/22/11 ; 2:17pm Bannack: f 5.6 1/15 t1i canon

I adjusted the levels, saturation, and clarity in RAW and Photoshop.