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Edit my Photo

October 1, 2007 · 6 Comments

This was fun… Brian Auer over at the Epic Edits Weblog has a photography project going on where he makes one of his photos available and others then edit it and post their results.

I stumbled upon this by Phil Price and his blog entry on it. So… here was my stab at it.

Brian Auer Original
The original, copyright Brian Auer.

Edited by Kevin Devin
and my edit.

I use Adobe LightRoom for all of my photo editing, so here were my edits.

Cropped image to close in on the bird and rotated slightly to level out horizon

left WB as shot
Increased exposure +1.36
recovery 19
blacks 18
increased contrast to +35

For tone curve,
Highlights +25
Lights +15
Darks -15
Shadows -30

Saturation,
Red +18
Orange +7
Yellow -3
Green -52
Purple +20
Magenta +20

Split toning
Highlights
Hue 237
Saturation 15
Shadows
Hue 246
Saturation 32

Lens Vignetting
Amount +60
Midpoint 18

And that’s it… The final product is above.

This was fun… I’ll have to keep an eye out for more little projects like this.

Thanks Brian! Thanks Phil!

Categories: Publishing

6 responses so far ↓

  • Brian Auer // October 1, 2007 at 8:41 pm

    Nice work on this — I’m finding it really interesting how different all of the entries are. While there are similarities between a few of them in some aspects, no two are close enough to be mistaken for twins.

  • Mike McBride // October 2, 2007 at 5:20 am

    That’s an interesting idea, I might have to think about making a full sized version of a photo available for others to edit, it would be a fun way to see what I might be overlooking.

    Good work on your’s!

  • Phillip Price // October 2, 2007 at 3:03 pm

    Hi Kevin,
    Nice work - I see you went blue :)

    Have added you to my RSS Reader Mr D :)

    Thanks for the link love!

    Phill

  • neilcreek // October 16, 2007 at 9:47 pm

    Hi Kevin, I’m one of the fellow photographers who entered Brian’s Edit my Photo project.

    I selected your entry as one of my three favourites and thought you might like to know what I said about it.

    Here’s what I said about your photo in my post to Brian’s blog:

    “I love the exposure on this one. It draws the viewer’s attention squarely to the bird as the subject. I also absolutely love the pale blue tones throughout the image, which give it a dream-like feel. My only issue with the photo is the buoy right at the edge of the crop. This is a jarring distraction and really hurts the composition. I would have either cropped to keep it out of shot, further into the shot, or cloned it out all together.”

    Good luck!

  • Kevin // October 16, 2007 at 9:52 pm

    Thanks Neil!

    I had thought about that damned buoy! I KNEW I should have cloned that thing out of there! :-)

    Appreciate the feedback!

    -KHD

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