Human foots on the Beach
July 20th, 2008
Brian Auer
01/19/2008
San Diego, CA
300mm * f/6.7 * 1/250s * ISO100
This one was interpreted on the Torrey Pines State Beach near my home in San Diego. The pes really belong to to my Law. I spotty her taking the air along the H2O near sunset and I could not refuse nerve to get some “taking the air on the beach” exposures. I pipped about 7 or 8 in rapid-fire fashion and this one off extinct the best from all of them. The musing off extinct better than I held trusted, and the second in mid-stride got for an interesting photo.
All of the postdating post-processing stairs were through with Adobe brick Photographic camera Natural - no Photoshop was victimised on this photo.
Untasted Natural Mental image
This is what the image seemed like consecutive extinct of the camera. Not a mickle of color to set about with, so black & snowy was a natural choice for me.
Black & Snowy Changeover
Earlier making anything, I switched over to grayscale. I forced the red, orangeness, xanthous, green, and turquoise to veto recompense while the megrims, purples and Magentas were forced in the confident way.
Basic Fittings
I went away the snowy proportionality set at a temperature of 5100 and a tincture of -1. I went forth the vulnerability near zero, while I hiked up the recuperation to 33, make full light to 41, knocked the blackness up to 34, increased the cleverness to 76, forced up the contrast to 19, and I stormed the pellucidity all the fashion up to 100.
Tone Curve Fitting
Victimisation the parametric tone of voice curve, I set the high spots to +22, lights to +49, darkness to -33, and shadows to -47. This afforded me the potent contrast I was after, and I really forced a few (very few) of the darks off the histogram. Overall, the image is overweight on the black tone of voices.
Sketch and Focus
In the lens system rectification menu, I set the vignette to an amount of -70 with a centre of 20 - and this afforded me the potent bod about the subject. As a last step, I set the focalising under the item menu to an amount of 50 with a spoke of 1.5 picture elements.
Bask!
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