I was at work today and so incredibly bored that I e-mailed Hubs and said, "Please! Give me something to write about!"
He suggested I write about all his softball injuries and how he's too old to play anymore. Poor guy. He does seem to acquire a lot of owies. Currently, it's his ankle. He ran into a ball last week. It's still all swollen and lumpy and he hobbles around like the old man he's turning into. (Love you, honey!)
But, since I don't have any pictures of said ankle, I didn't think a post about it would be very much fun.
So, here's a bit of photography fun for all of you to enjoy. Or ignore. Whatever.
Here's a picture I took of Teeter's #5 while they were visiting a few weeks ago.
Um... yeah, it sucks. I was using the wrong white balance and didn't realize it until 30+ pictures in. Thank God for the ability to shoot in Raw and, of course, for Photoshop.
I opened the Raw (or NEF) file in Photoshop and selected the preset "daylight" white balance, which immediately fixed the lighting.
Of course, I couldn't stop editing there. There were some minor things that I wanted to touch on, like sharpening.
This is the picture after I ran the Unsharp Mask.
Next, I wanted to give it a slight boost, so I did, using PW's "Boost" action. I also bumped up the contrast in those gorgeous blue eyes.
After that, I did a quick crop to focus in on her cute little face and burned the edges of the photo.
Here's the before and after.
I know it looks like a lot of editing took place due to my mistake in not using the right settings to begin with, but after I fixed that, the edits were pretty minor. I just wanted to enhance her natural cuteness and give it a little "boost."
Tuesday, May 13
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4 comments:
Tell hubs that I'm sorry he's getting old.
With all your photo shop experience, you couldn't wipe the crap off that kid's face?!??
Oh my gosh, I think that's the best part! Look, I'm not taking away her sandy face and I'm not taking away YOU'RE wrinkles. Deal with it.
NOT GETTING OLD!! By the way can you get rid of my wrinkles? LOL
Haha. I just realized I used "you're" when I meant "your".
What a turd.
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