{"id":15,"date":"2009-05-19T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/19\/the-somewhat-subtle-edit\/"},"modified":"2009-05-19T04:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T04:47:00","slug":"the-somewhat-subtle-edit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/19\/the-somewhat-subtle-edit\/","title":{"rendered":"The (somewhat) Subtle Edit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day Seventeen (1am)<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve finished the light editing and have bumped the image count up to 465 with various additions, duplicate B&#038;W and color images, and a few sepia toned thrown in for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting on the retouches that I couldn&#8217;t do in Lightroom. Photoshop is an old friend of mine and together we make some pretty fantastic things happen. This example is far from fantastic, but I wanted to share nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>I had an image that contained stray background elements that I could not creatively crop out at the time of shooting. Devilish power lines. Hideous!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the RAW file:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gZ9CC2QGdaI\/ShI630ZV5sI\/AAAAAAAAACE\/zD5WrKsXSP8\/s1600-h\/_DSC5148.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gZ9CC2QGdaI\/ShI630ZV5sI\/AAAAAAAAACE\/zD5WrKsXSP8\/s400\/_DSC5148.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>With some skill and control over frustration, I managed to rid my image of the dreaded power lines. I applied a contrast boost in a few color areas strengthening the red end of the spectrum.  I warmed the image up a touch and tossed a slight Gaussian blur ring around the outermost elements of the image to get this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gZ9CC2QGdaI\/ShI67z2VV_I\/AAAAAAAAACM\/sggQr-3A96Y\/s1600-h\/_DSC5148-Edit.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gZ9CC2QGdaI\/ShI67z2VV_I\/AAAAAAAAACM\/sggQr-3A96Y\/s400\/_DSC5148-Edit.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>I liked the image greatly, but also wanted to see what it would look like in Black &#038; White. A few parameter adjustments from the &#8220;soft skin&#8221; preset in Silver Efex Pro and we have this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gZ9CC2QGdaI\/ShJAjxtWI0I\/AAAAAAAAACU\/WfUraa-Wvtk\/s1600-h\/_DSC5148-Edit-BW.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gZ9CC2QGdaI\/ShJAjxtWI0I\/AAAAAAAAACU\/WfUraa-Wvtk\/s400\/_DSC5148-Edit-BW.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>And sometimes (just sometimes) you need to be selective:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gZ9CC2QGdaI\/ShJA0JjefaI\/AAAAAAAAACc\/dYHlfyV8wp4\/s1600-h\/_DSC5148-Edit-BW%2Bselective.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gZ9CC2QGdaI\/ShJA0JjefaI\/AAAAAAAAACc\/dYHlfyV8wp4\/s400\/_DSC5148-Edit-BW%2Bselective.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>I will keep all 3 edits and print them for the proof book. I believe that they all have their merits and deserve a place in the proof book. Let the bride and groom decide which they like best.<\/p>\n<p>More to come!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92009 DivineMayhemStudios<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day Seventeen (1am) So I&#8217;ve finished the light editing and have bumped the image count up to 465 with various additions, duplicate B&#038;W and color images, and a few sepia toned thrown in for good measure. I&#8217;m starting on the retouches that I couldn&#8217;t do in Lightroom. Photoshop is an old friend of mine and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/19\/the-somewhat-subtle-edit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The (somewhat) Subtle Edit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40I5Y-f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divinemayhem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}