I shot a portrait of a Purdue prof and his grad students today. The image straight from the camera wasn't so hot, but I knew that. What I was hoping to be a large, windowless classroom turned into a small office with no shades for the only window! The only option I really had was to throw around as many photons as I could muster in hopes to get a long enough shutter speed to show some movement. 1/1.3s f/22 ISO 200 later...
So I took it into photoshop knowing I was going to have to do more than the usual to make this image worth something (or at least close to being worth something). About 20 adjustment layers and much dodging, burning, smearing and blurring later...
So my question to you, dear readers, is was it worth the 90 minutes of photoshop work, did I take it too far, or was it doomed from the start?
1 comment:
I think your post processing is definitely an improvement! So no, it wasn't doomed.
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