Friday, February 19, 2010

Fix-It Friday...#44

Okay, so this is actually only my 3rd Fix-It Friday but it's iheartface's 44th and it seems much easier to track if I'm using their numbering system so "44" it is!!

This week's photo is of a lovely little girl named Emma (great name, btw).  Cute shot of Emma but also a great shot of the neighborhood and underexposed because the camera was confused by the bright areas/shadows.   The metering needs to be done to the subject, not the scene as a whole, to avoid this.

Here is this weeks original photo:


While I like the look of the road under Emma's feet, I really wanted to eliminate as much of the "neighborhood" feel of the photo as I could so I cropped it much closer.

Here is my edit:


I did all of my editing in Lightroom 3 (a Beta version that's free to download and good until the real version is released).  I adjusted the exposure (up quite a bit for most of the picture and then selectively burned the brighter areas), upped the temperature a bit, increased the saturation in her vest to give it a bit of oomph, brightened Emma's face, and added a vignette to also help eliminate the distracting housing.

I'm making a point of not looking at any of the other edits posted (even the ones on the same webpage which is VERY hard to do) so I won't be biased by others but I'm anxious to see what others did!

I'd love to hear what you think so please leave a comment!!

To try editing for yourself and see what others have done, go to:




Have fun!!!

6 comments:

  1. Thanks for stopping by! I love your edit; the close crop really puts the focus on her cute little face!

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  2. great job! And kudos for not looking at the experts shots first. I think you did even better than they did!

    I haven't used LR at all... it's on my list of things to learn. But based on this, I think it must be worth it!

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  3. This is so awesome! I so wish I had the skills. Thanks for sharing!

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  4. I thought about doing a closer crop too! It looks really great, you did a great job for just learning LR too! :-)

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  5. Beautiful edit :D I have the LR3 beta too, but wanted to not use it today (for a change) as I might not be able to afford when it comes off Beta, so I need to be sure I can use other software :D Thanks for commenting on my edit and in answer to you question, I edited the jpg, as downloading from Flickr we don't have access to the RAW (do we?). I always wish we could have the 'orignal' file instead of the large one because my fix-its always pixelate when I put them on Blogger, no matter whether I save them for the web or save them in highest quality jpg. Not sure what else to do to make them look better. They look fine on my PC.

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  6. Thanks for that ~ I'll know for next time :D I've now put my edits as Flickr pictures and they are so much less pixelated!

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