That Gritty Look

Posted on | March 29, 2010 | 2 Comments

In one of the training videos I was watching while organizing my recent vacation photos last weekend, Scott Kelby showed how to create this cool gritty post processing look that’s popular in commercial photography nowadays. I tried this technique on some of the photos from the wedding.

This is the unretouched photo of my cousin ML. (Photo taken by Troy Redington.)

This is the image after applying the gritty effect in Lightroom.

This is the unretouched photo of my other cousin DJ. DJ and ML are brothers, by the way. I know, their parents had this obsession with acronyms. (Photo also taken by Troy Redington.)

And this is the image after applying the gritty effect in Lightroom.

There you go, instant print ad models. (Oh, did I mention how I absolutely love these two cousins of mine?) If you’re interested, Scott Kelby shows how to do this gritty look here.

High Contrast Rendering

Posted on | February 25, 2009 | No Comments

I just finished a class by Scott Kelby called “Professional Photo Retouching Techniques” at Kelbytraining.com and one of the tricks I have learned is how to do a high contrast rendering.

Here are some examples of my take on high contrast rendering. These are pictures of Mica taken in our backyard in 2004 when she fell into the “poncho craze” – a fad that died out really fast. If you mouseover the images, you will see what the originals looked like.

In the first picture, I used the same texture that I talked about in my previous blog entry.

Fun with Texture

Posted on | February 24, 2009 | 2 Comments

Found this really cool texture by Ishkamina from Flickr that is so fun to play with. I used it in this picture to add a subtle sparkle in the background, which interestingly enough makes my subject pop out.

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