Today’s reader photo is from Karina. I really struggled over whether I should edit out the person fishing in this shot because this would completely change the type of image from a portrait to a landscape. I tried a few different methods of dodging and lightening him so he would stand out a little more but that area simply wouldn’t lighten. It was so truly black that the information just wasn’t there to work with. It may have been more successful had the image been in RAW. In the end, I just thought that he ended up blending in way too much. So much in some places that he wasn’t even a silhouette. So I straightened it, edited the fisher out with the healing brush on ‘replace’ mode and applied some texture to make it a supercool, supermoody landscape.
THANKS, KARINA! EVERYONE KEEP THOSE SHOTS COMIN. SEND YOUR PHOTOS TO EH@ELIZABETHHALFORD.COM
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