blue & beautiful
November 22nd, 2009 | portraits, postprocessing | No Comments »The eyes of my girlfriend. I love them (and her) so much.
I took this portrait on our trip in Prague, somewhere on a terrace. I used my 100mm macro for it, which is actually a great lens for taking portraits.
I did the PP of this shot entirely in Lightroom and decided to really go all the way with it using lots of local adjustments (which I don’t do that much because I want to keep portraits as natural as possible). I first removed all the blemishes on the skin with the spot removal tool. Then I started with the eyes: I lifted the exposure and the saturation. Under the eyes, there was some blue shade which removed by lifting the exposure and desaturating a little bit. I added a little extra red on the lips. Finally, I softened the skin a little bit by lowering the clarity. Here is a before/after screenshot from lightroom. Let me know what you think!
Tags: beautiful, beauty, blonde, blue eyes, girlfriend, lightroom, local adjustment brush, muriel, portrait, retouching, skin, softening, woman

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