PS the Wedding Photo of the Week: Special Edition 11/1/10

<p>This week, to give everyone a break from posting their own images, I've posted one of my own wedding images from the wedding of one of our own Photo.net members. Victoria and Chris got married at a super private ceremony in July, at a private residence in Napa, just north of me. Victoria tells me the following image is one of their favorites, and she previously requested that I post one from their wedding for this Photoshop exercise. It has only had very basic white balance and sharpening, and is uncropped.</p>

<p>For those of you unfamiliar with "PS the POW", a neutral image is chosen for everyone to Photoshop 'their way'. So have fun! Victoria and Chris might really like your rendition.</p><div></div>

<p>Was having fun - but tough work on an image this small:</p><div></div>

<p>OK--here's a bigger version.</p><div></div>

<p>Here is my shot at it</p><div></div>

Here is my attempt...<div></div>

<p>My two attempts - I like them both:</p>

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<p>and the second one:</p><div></div>

<p>Here's one for fun..............</p><div></div>

<p>Black and white conversion done in Lightroom 3.</p><div></div>

<p>I don't normally Photoshop like this at all. (Honest! You can look at my website/blog). Normally I don't do the yellow, but wanted to try it.</p><div></div>

<p>I'm normally as much a slave to the 2:3 aspect ratio as anyone, but this felt a little narrow to me. I added a color/toned B&W blend with layer masking for a hand colored feel and a bit of softening. I could have used on of these in Moraga, Nadine!</p><div></div>

<p>here's my few minutes of fun with it!</p><div></div>

<p>Revamped the image a bit.</p><div></div>

<p>First time I've done one of these. In Lightroom: Crop, add Recovery and a bit of Contrast. In PS: 1) Cleanup (twig near his foot bugged me, killed the hoses, one wrinkle/shadow in the dress). 2) Copied the layer, added blur, and masked it in on areas of her skin to soften the contrast in splotchy-sunlight, and to soften the sunburn a little bit. 3) High-pass layer in hard-light mode to boost details in his suit and her hair. 4) A bit of vibrance.</p>

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<p>Just some subtle items re the Bride and a 5x7 crop:</p>

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<p>added new sky,played with colors and a few more little tweaks!</p><div></div>

<p>can't really tell you exactly what I did. Had a few beers, played with the sliders and here's what I came up with...</p><div></div>

<p>I don't know why the photo looks like poop. I right clicked, saved as, and didn't do anything too extreme. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow, I'm being called for a footrub right now.</p>

<p>A few color control points + a basic overlay to curves.</p><div></div>

<p>Here's mine</p>

<p>Bill</p><div></div>

<p>Here's my attempt! Cropped to 8x10, converted to B/W via PS action, tweaked to taste. Added a sorta reverse vignette, which I felt helps with the "old slightly faded photo" look. Overlayed grungy texture partly because I love the look it gives. Also it adds some life to the sky, which I couldn't do much with after my previous treatments. I masked the texture off of the b/g because I didn't want them to look grungy! Then I added a border that I thought suited my vision for the image, and voila!</p>

<p>Thanks to Nadine, Victoria and Chris for sharing!</p><div></div>

<p>Wow! There are some really talented folks on this forum, yes?! First off, a HUGE thanks to Nadine for being our super-talented, kind, and fun-to-work-with photographer! We're forever indebted to you, and we're thrilled with all the shots you took, Nadine.<br>

Chris' favorite here is the 'stepping off the page' look by Danzel (cool!) and that was seconded by a couple of friends of ours. I (Victoria) have a hard time choosing because they are all so different, but I also really like the high contrast/color-processed grass by Alexander, the 'new sky' put in by Rodney (awesome), and the faded photo look by Blair. Great ideas everyone, you are all very creative and inspirational!</p>

<p>a bit over the top for me perhaps</p><div></div>

<p>my attempt..................</p>

<p>My humble attempt:</p>

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