Alex Lim I

During a walk in the park, I took a some of photos of my brother and sister riding bikes/scooters using my Nikon d3000.

My favourite photo was this one.

EXIF Data:
- Nikon d3000
- 1/125
- f/3.5
- ISO 200

The lighting is quite bad, that it was I had to spruce it up in Adobe Lightroom. In addition to this, I shot this in RAW. Therefore, making it very flexible in editing.

1. Changed the temperature of the photograph; made it warmer.
2. Increased the brightness and contrast
3. Increased the recovery and fill lights
4. Increased the clarity slightly and increased the vibrancy a lot.
5. Added a 'S' curve, which added slightly more contrast.
6. Added a warming tint, on low opacity
7. I changed the saturations of certain colours in the photograph to make it feel more natural. - orange, yellow, green & blue
8. Composed the photograph, by cropping and rotating it.


From here I moved the image to Adobe Photoshop CS3.

1. I applied image onto a new layer, blurred it heavily, then set the layer overlay and decreased the opacity. This gave a heavenly feel
2. I added a Levels adjustment layer to make image brighter
3. I dodged the face of my brother
4. Sharpened it.