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06/29/2008 04:45:09 PM · #1 |
So I've got some shots from a shoot some of which the model is wet and has water falling on her and dripping from her... I'd like to make them standout much more than it does now both in colour and in b&w, but I have no idea where to start... any help is appreciated.
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06/29/2008 05:01:10 PM · #2 |
I bet you can do some careful dodge and burn on the edges of the drops using a very narrow brush to bring them out a bit. But I would first try some local contrast such as using USM at settings like 25%, 50 pixels, 0 threshold to bring out the contrast in the drops.
But the best thing to do for wet shots like this is to get the lighting right in the first place - side lighting to illuminate the droplets often works very well.
Good luck - hopefully others can provide you some more ideas.
Originally posted by Eyesup:
So I've got some shots from a shoot some of which the model is wet and has water falling on her and dripping from her... I'd like to make them standout much more than it does now both in colour and in b&w, but I have no idea where to start... any help is appreciated.
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06/29/2008 05:19:15 PM · #3 |
I find the Recovery and Clarity sliders are good to fool with while converting from RAW. The Recovery gives you some extra leway with Curves after you bring it into Photoshop, and the Clarity seems to give some extra local contrast.
In Photoshop the usual with curves, levels without blowing the drops. I like to Burn Shadows a bit on the water.
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06/29/2008 11:19:53 PM · #4 |
bump for more.... I've been working on it and I'll post some soon... but any other techniques out there?
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06/30/2008 02:45:36 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by bassbone:
...some careful dodge and burn on the edges of the drops using a very narrow brush to bring them out a bit. |
Definitely the way to go IMO. Use a strong contrast curves layer to dodge the water drops pretty heavily - pay attention to just hit a highlight area on the drops (all facing the direction of the main lightsource). Then play around with the opacity % until it looks right. Should do the trick nicely :O) |
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06/30/2008 03:36:00 AM · #6 |
Duplicate image.
Filter->Other->High pass. Set to ten pixels for web, maybe larger for full size.
Then set the blending mode to Hard Light. Fade effect to your liking. Mask out what you do not want effected.
Thats what I did on this one to get the rain to pop.
Maybe this helps. :) |
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