![]() ![]() Most of it was done with tricks I learned in Scott Kelby’s amazing The Photoshop Channels Book but there were still a few stubborn spots. ![]() It looks simple, but the details around the edge of the motorcycle (including wires and spokes) it took some serious time. ![]() Of course to do this I had to create a mask just for the floor, so that’s where the time sync began. The floor was looking good but still ugly so I just did a light Gaussian Blur to hide the remaining flaws.I then used the healing brush (mostly) and the clone stamp tool to finish up the remaining floor flaws and minor issues on the motorcycle. I had to do small segments for the best results, so it was a little slow but the results were good. I started off by spending a lot of time cleaning up the floor using Content Aware Fill on my MacBook Pro using Photoshop CS5.I always export as 16-bit ProPhoto so I have the most colors available while photo editing.īefore/After Lightroom Modifications (cropping not shown) These changes got me ready for Photoshop, so I exported my photo a Smart Object in case I wanted to make any more changes while in Photoshop. While I don’t show it here, I also cropped in closer to cut a seam from the concrete out of the photo.I tinkered with the white balance but decided I liked the in-camera results best.After checking the clipping regions I decided to add 76 points of highlight recovery and 33 points of fill light.Next I enabled lens correction to get rid of distortion caused by my 16-35mm lens.First boosted the exposure (+1.25) and enabled the camera profile for my lens camera combo to get my raw file looking okay.Oops – so much for a quick sale on an okay shot! My Photoshop file after other Lightroom enhancements Here’s a look at my layers palette (after some work in Lightroom 3) after 8 hours of photo editing in the evenings over the last few days: Well perhaps, but I’m a bit obsessive compulsive at times so I had to do more to make something I was happy with (and I’m not easy to please). When you hover over the original it seems pretty simple – just clean up the floor, give the color a little oomph and sharpen and voilà done. That said, it did show of some important features of the product so it served a purpose and was still worth a sale. Fortunately I was using my 16-35mm lens at 23mm so they came out clear, but the depth of field was terrible and the shot honestly was rather boring and unoriginal. The problem with this shot was that I had bumped the rotating knob on my 5D Mark II from manual to Aperture priority so the camera was taking shots at f/5.0 for 1/30 sec on ISO 100. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but sometimes we bite off more than we can chew! I told them I could clean it up a bit and they could use it at a reduced rate because it wasn’t one I was going to be selling regularly like the others in the same series. I was recently doing a shot for a client where I wasn’t charging full price because they agreed to use one of my reject photos. Mouse over (or click on iOS) to see the before shot Copyright © Ron Martinsen – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ![]()
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