Ahhh... what a crazy day at school today. As I walked out of my classroom, the first thing I wanted to do was come home relax and EDIT my weekly photo for the new Shoot & Edit challenge!
Here was my BEFORE photo
I actually really liked a lot of things about this photo SOOC, so I knew I didn't want to do too much with it in post processing... but I'm all for trying new things!
1st Edit
So, the first thing I did was try Ashley's suggestion of running a high pass filter (softlight blending mode) on a copy of the background. I love how crisp it made the icicles!
But of course, it wasn't as "artistic" as I would like it to be yet. I'm totally into the soft vintage look, so I did a bit more work with it yet.
I ran an action called "fake tilt shift"from the NicoleVan Urban action set. This gave me a nice blurred background, and then I masked out a few icicles right in the center of the photo. I made sure to vary my opacity as I did this to make it not so drastic.
I tried several actions, but couldn't quite get the effect/color/softness I was looking for, so I re-opened the slightly edited photo in Lightroom 3. I ran Rebecca Lily's "After the Rain" preset on the photo, and voila!! It gave the softness and dreamy color the photo... just like I was hoping it would!
The AFTER photo
I like the edit, and I'm glad I learned a new tid-bit about the high pass filter trick!
FUN!
I'm also linking these edits up to a new challenge at another great photoblog I discovered!
6 comments:
Oh I love your edit! Beautiful! xo
This is SO pretty! I LOVE how blurry & texture-like the background is, so the icicles really stand out. :)
Your final edit is beautiful but that high pass filter definitely made the icicles pop!
Oh I really like this! Great capture & wonderful bokeh this photo has :]
beautiful, very cute blog!
beautiful edit. i finally got PSE 9. i haven't had much time to play with it yet though.
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