Taken on Christmas after opening all of our gifts. This is my mom on my grandfather\'s chair. I set up my brand spankin\' new 52\" round reflector with the gold side to reflect the natural light onto her. I also used my brand new Alien Bee 400 strobe to further illuminate her. I actually took this image with this effect in mind, just didn\'t know how I would do it.
I ended up doing all of the editing in RAW. I actually did them in the CS3 Adobe Bridge Camera Raw Trial. (Loving this!) Here are the settings I drastically changed:
Alright, here is what I did for the mom picture. It was all in Camera Raw from Adobe Bridge from CS3 (The trial)
(obviously these exact settings won\'t yield the same result on every image, but you get the idea)
Upped the \"recovery\" slider to 88
Upped the \"fill light\" slider to 75
Upped the \"black\" slider to 28
Upped the \"brightness\" slider to 128
Upped the \"contrast\" slider to 70
Took the \"vibrance\" slider down to -37
Used the \"strong contrast\" default curve
In the luminance color channels I did the most changes
This was one of my favorite submissions for this challenge, even if the interpretation is a bit of a stretch for me. This is a wonderful example of tasteful digital transformation of what might otherwise be a mediocre photo into something truly special. Keep up the good work, and I hope to see other experiments of this sort in the Free Studies in the future!
I still stand behind my vote, a wonderful subject. I get this tired just singing the song to my daughter. The spirit of the challenge is certainly here!
This is a great picture love the pp it is so well done, to bad it didn't meet the challenge because I am sure it would have scored very high if it did. Anyway great shot!
Reading your notes explains how effectively you have captured the mood. Kudos - right on the money. There there :)
Maybe you shouldn't have taken this, because when you look back you only remember the fun.
Anyway, truly excellent picture.
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