Sunday, April 26, 2009

CBT Pre-race

So....I've gotten a little behind on my once per week commitment.  I'll try to make up for it some with a bunch of pictures today.  Going to number then - curious in any comments.  These were pre-race yesterday between 10:30 and 11 am.  Used the 24-70mm L.  All the adjustment are in Lightroom.  I finally bought a book so I can figure out Photoshop.




#1  I applied Matt's Auto Adjustment (from Killer Lightroom tips) for portraits.   This is such a typical face for CBT.



#2  Used same preset.  It put a little more richness in the green of the grass and softened his face just a bit.




#3  Used Matt's Soft Focus Level I along with a slight exposure adjustment and some vignetting.




#4  Same soft focus preset as before.  He had definitely gone into "posing" mode.





#5  Christopher liked this one a lot.  "I've seen pictures like this before where the person isn't in the middle."  I think that was his way of saying it is slightly more artistic than mom usually is.  Used the Matt's Auto Adjustment again.

Maybe I can get back on track now - there are so many beautiful things around!

2 comments:

Molly said...

Love #5. Like the variety of expressions, too.

Traci said...

Love #5!!!

Did you get Scott Kelby's Lightroom 2 book? I should have told you all about it sooner. I really like it a lot!

The shot of the yellow finch in my site was actually Scott's picture. Had to give him credit. =)

Take care!

Traci