My daughter decided to give me her funny face, while my son chose to ignore me and my camera! Just one of those days, I guess! LOL
Thank you for all the comments on yesterday's post. I bounced my flash behind me on the first one and to the side on the second one. On both, my daughter was sitting on a silver reflector. As for my B&W conversions, I do them in LR3. After doing the standard WB adjustments, I play with the Tone Curve (bumping up the lights and bumping down the darks). I tweak other things such as contrast, brightness, and recovery sliders as needed. I use the adjustment brush to lighten or darken any given area that needs it (have not done this lately). I learned a lot of this from David DuChemin's book,
Vision & Voice: Refining Your Vision in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Hope this helps!
8 comments:
Oh my, this is just an adorable tub shot of your children!! I love your blk&wht!
This one is just too funny! Thank you for the suggestion to place the silver reflector under the child. I would never have thought of that. I too, love your B/W conversions.
Lots of character in this shot. I love the edit too.
LOL Love it. Never would have thought to have them sit on a reflector. Great idea, thanks!
This made me laugh so hard, she is too cute!!! You are a master at LR, show me the ways!! I just can't seem to get it, I always go back to CS5.
Thanks for the support about losing steam, I really appreciate it. I knew I'd hit a wall at some point, just didn't think it would be this bad. BUT it's nice to have your support because it really makes me want to pick up the camera today!
About RAW, your comment nailed it on the head, although my RAW photos always come out brighter and lighter than my JPEG which was the point I wanted to show. How JEPG increases contrast within camera. I didn't go much into those difference last night and I confused some people and feel bad. Hopefully I help fix that tonight. :)
sometimes you just need to make a silly face
Thank you for giving us some insight into your B/W workflow. You are awesome! I do some similar things, but I always forget about Tone Curves, so I need to remember that in the future. Also, I love title of David's book because when I look at a picture that I'm about to play with, the first thing that goes through my head is "what do I want this to look like" and I form a vision in my head. I'll often times try some presets first, but if I don't get what I'm after, I start from scratch and move stuff around based on intuition...and am finding that I can finally get to where I want to be on my own now, so that makes me happy.
Hehe cute!
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