As promised, this is how I took and edited the following photo. Not using any fancy schmancy plugins, just some good old fashioned do-it-myself elbow grease.
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{How I took it}
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 18-200mm
Data: 200mm, f/6.3, 1/400th second {these are the settings I was using on the boys, not necessarily what I would’ve chosen if I had time to think about it}
Surroundings: A back alley – shaded from the golden 5 o’clock sun
{Recipe}
I did everything in LR – just slid a few sliders so nothing ground breaking. I pumped up the:
- Exposure
- Contrast
- Clarity
- Brightness
- Highlights
- Saturation of the colours aqua and blue
- Then I grabbed the adjustment brush and used a brush with amped up contrast and clarity allover the blue fence behind the cat
- Added a post-crop vignette (even though I didn’t crop it. Just looked like a nicer vignette)
- I added a bit to the sharpness
That’s it!
