May
07
2012 2012O.P.P. #6 – Outdoor Portrait
The nice thing about doing post on landscapes is that you have a much wider margin of tolerance than you do with portraits. With people, it’s easy to tell if the color temperature is off, or if you cranked the clarity a little too high in post. But with landscapes, the sky is the limit (har har); you want blurry purple mountains over super-contrasty blue grass below a foreboding red sky? Knock yourself out.
It gets tricky when you have a shot that combines the two; you need to make sure that going hog-wild with one doesn’t hurt the other (this is where adjustment brushes come in handy). Watch the video (my shortest yet!) below to see more:
If you would like to submit your own image to O.P.P. you can do so here.
Hiryu
Had some weird moire on the face and hair show up when upping the clarity/sharpening. Not sure if this is a Lr4 thing or something with Nikon RAW files.