Bloody Processing

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Its got to be what I dislike most in the studio workflow....especially when you make some pretty blatant over sights!

Mistake 1 - Not changing the paper between shoots, note the black shoe marks.
Mistake 2 - Not sweeping up the dog hair every few shots.
Mistake 3(ish) - Not keeping the keylight out of shot.

This took me around 15min to edit, which is a bloody life time when you have a stack of work to do! :bang:

BEFORE
Pre-Edit-001.jpg


AFTER
Post-Edit-001.jpg
 
Mistake 5 nailing focus?..looks soft to me although could be the vodka and redbull!:D
 
Phil Young said:
Ok...... quite an easy solution just getting him to bend his knee though...???

I'm sure they would be fine with a load of space to the right and a foot amputated though...
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Yeah, there is a images included where all feet are present. The reason chose this one to post is its one that took the most processing. I don't intentionally cut off feet but if the image is technically good and pleasant on the eye then it gets included.
 
Decent editing there.

Never done any studio work, but not keen on the cropped foot or maybe a tighter crop. Have to say, looks a tad soft on my iPad.

Cheers.
 
At f8 I thought it would be sharper but maybe its my screen..
 
It could be the conversion to jpeg? In lightroom its perfectly sharp....

Thats the shoot processed, its taken an age.....next time i'll be sweeping as I shoot.
 
i'm looking at this think WTF? :thinking:

I didn't post that - A shared work computer ha!

Cheers Matt - though i'd lost the plot.
 
Yeah, it's a good bit of photoshopping on the background - I'm pap at doing stuff like this - but for me it begs the question: how come you didn't spot the key light when taking the shot?
 
tbh, shopping is pretty easy, I've done some crazy edits for people over the last couple of years. It's all about practice.

A simple clean up like that would take about 5 mins max, maybe 20 to add a foot on to the man :p
 
Honestly an edit like this can be done in about 1 minute (30 - 40 seconds actually) (this is an edit of your top image - I can remove if you prefer)

Crop first that leaves a slither on the left and a small area of black in the top right corner.

Now on the left make a rough selection around the slither but make sure the selection covers much more to the right - feather it by a few pixels then copy the selection and paste it. On the top new layer press control T and with the transform tool you just need to drag the left centre point to the left and voila - the background is now all grey!

Same on the right side make a larger selection than the small corner of black and just drag the selection to the right this time.

That's it done (apart from a small clean up at the front of the train).

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If you have space to use a longer lens you should be able to remove more of the background and not include the softbox
 
Matt - Just noted it was you who posted this.... happy to show you if you need help I can nip over?? (still keep meaning to drop in) lol
 
Fixing the background is easy enough (easier still if the sides of the studio are the same colour as the BG)
I'm more concerned about the difference in lighting between the boy and the man, the boys face looks a bit light on the monitor I'm using (not my own), the missing foot also bothers me, and it doesn't look that sharp either, I know you said it looks sharp in LR but at this size it doesn''t to me.
 
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