Monday, June 6, 2011

IHF's Photo Challenge | From a Distance


IHF's Photo Challenge | From a Distance

This weeks photo challenge is Portraits from a distance.  That means no close ups.  I immediately thought of this picture.  It is of my son and his Grandmother walking down the beach with there footprints behind them.  I love this picture!  And I hope you do too!  Here it is!


 I hope you enjoy this shot.  See below on post production.


POST PRODUCTION


The original image had beach goers and buildings in the background.  I thought it would be great to take out those items and have the focus and our subjects.  I use Photoshop CS5 with OnOne Plugins.  I opened the image up and did a copy layer to edit from.  I adjusted contrast using Curves.  Then used OnOne to  pop my colors.  I then made a new layer to edit the buildings and people out of the back ground.  I used the content aware healer to take everything out.  Once that was complete, I lassoed the footprints and darkened the contrast to make them pop out from the sand.  The I added my custom OnOne boarder and my water mark.  
I hope you enjoyed this brief description on how this image was made.  And of course the image itself!
Here is the image before the buildings and people were taken out:

        Before                                                                                   After

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4 comments:

  1. A lovely photo, very precious :)

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  2. So sweet! love the footprints in the sand!

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  3. Love this photo!! Precious memories in the sand!!!

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