Photo Editing Exercise

Edit­ing a Photo has basi­cally two aspects:

1. Tech­ni­cal edit­ing which con­sists in apply­ing cal­i­bra­tion and recov­er­ing a max­i­mum of data from the image.
2. Tell your story by enhanc­ing the expression.

This post will deal only with the first aspect using a Photo ©2010 Laeti­tia Paris.

Tree ©2010 Laeti­tia Paris Original

What comes out of the cam­era is fun­da­men­tally good how­ever the bright sky rep­re­sent­ing about 40% of the frame has it’s neg­a­tive influ­ence on the meter­ing. The sky looks over exposed. The ques­tion is whether the cam­era sen­sor has cap­tured color data which can be exploited.

Tree ©2010 Laeti­tia Paris Recov­ered Sky

The dif­fer­ence may appear small here in this down-sized image, how­ever on the full size image it is sub­stan­tial. The increase of blue tones in the sky impacts on the per­cep­tion of the greens.

Of course Light­room allows to inter­vene on selected areas; you can paint and tint your sky as you like (or use the Dark Skies Plug-in).

Tree ©2010 Laeti­tia Paris Painted in Sky

Tree ©2010 Laeti­tia Paris — desaturated

Lord of the Rings

Firenza

Autumn Glow

The above exag­ger­ated exam­ples show how the mood and expres­sion changes depend­ing on how we deal with the photo in the post edit­ing process. The impor­tant ques­tion remains: what’s the story you want to tell and how can the photo best express the essence of the story, mood or atmosphere.

We will talk about the expres­sion at the Mon­day call.

• photo edit­ing exercises
• Image edit­ing exercise
• post edit­ing autumn photograph
• pho­to­jour­nal­ism crop­ping exercise
• pho­to­jour­nal­ism sports desaturated
• pho­to­shop photo edit­ing exercise
• adobe photo edit­ing exercises
• sam­ple photho edit­ing exercises
• the lord of the rings tree
• tree from lord of the rings

Related posts:

1. Photo Edit­ing Exercise
2. Photo Edit­ing in 3 Steps
3. Photo Edit­ing 2
4. Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy and Photo Editing
5. Dig­i­tal Pho­tog­ra­phy and Photo Edit­ing II

Tags: Laetitia Paris, Photo Editing, Photo Editing with Lightroom

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