My theme this week is centered around the word LIGHT.
Well what I did was as follows:
- Added a little fill light (5%) in Lightroom 5
- Increased the contrast (5%) in Lightroom 5
- Adjusted the clarity slightly (15%) in Lightroom 5
- Transfered to Photoshop cc
- Ran the coffee shop action (sun-kissed)
- Placed the flare point at the top left (50-300 zoom @ 100%)
- Reduced the lighter layer to 30%
- Increased the contrast to 75%
- Decreased the orange tones to 75%
- kk_shine, multiply @ 50% opacity
- Text layer and watermark added.
The pre straight out of camera shot is here below I felt like doing a more literal take on the theme too, with this Lighthouse
Here is what I did to this photo:
- No adjustments made in Lightroom
- Transfered to Photoshop cc
- Duplicated the background, screen @ 60% opacity
- Created a Layer mask and took the effect of this adjustment off of the sky, with the brush opacity at 90%.
- Duplicated the background, hard light @ 30% opacity
- Created a Layer mask and took the effect of this adjustment off of the foreground, with the brush opacity at 90%.
- Levels adjustment to boost the whites
- High pass filter, hardlight & 25% opacity
- kk_plastersquared, multiply @ 70% opacity
- Watermark added.
As before the pre straight out of camera shot is here below Let me know what you think, as usual I prefer the originals, but I am having a lot of fun learning new “tricks” 🙂