Edit My Photo — by Steve Brown
By Brian Auer • October 10th, 2007Here’s another “Edit My Photo” project entry, this one from Steve Brown. This is the 24th official entry into the project, and there was one other that came in right after this.
I had intended to post this entry on Monday afternoon, then post the final project results on Tuesday morning. Well, I had a little issue with my web host and I had to refrain from posting anything while I “fixed” the site (more on that later). As a result, I’m posting this entry two days late, and (as I mentioned in the last post) the project results are being postponed until the 16th. I’m still taking entries until the 15th, so if anybody else is interested in being a part of this, here’s your chance. By the way, there’s a $50 cash/giftcard prize up for grabs.
Enough with the self-promotion, here’s Steve’s entry and how it was created:
Post-processing by Steve Brown
Photo by Brian Auer
Apart from the cropping, I:
- Used a RAW converter to increase the exposure by ¾ stop
- Used the GIMP to make a selection mask that concentrated on the shadow regions
- I used curves on the selection to increase the contrast of the shadow areas, notably the bird
- Then used curves across the whole image to increase contrast and lighten it a bit
- Corrected the slanting horizon
Brian Auer is a photography enthusiast from San Diego, California. He's also the guy behind the Epic Edits Weblog. As a hobbyist photographer since 2003, his passion has been to constantly improve his photography skill set, to share his own knowledge with others, and to become an integral part of the photographic community.
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I really like this one. Most of them I have looked at and still preferred my shot but this one has a really nice natural feel to it.
Kudos.
I think I like this one the best so far, with the square crop one a few posts back coming in a very close second.
The work on the bird makes it for me here.