This evening I'm just gonna go through the editing on this image of Walter.
Walter is a German Shorthaired Pointer this image was taken on Mappleton cliffs
which is at the top of the cliffs above a beach in East Yorkshire, which is in the
northeast of the United Kingdom. Walter was a fantastic model - this has been shot
with a 70 to 200 2.8 lens at f3.5 it was a very cloudy day it was misty and drizzly
so the images lacked warmth and they were very flat lighting. It was nice
because it was even light but it didn't have any direction and it makes the
images like contrast so we're looking to put all of those things that are missing
back into the image so the first things first what I always do with every image
anyway is run a base edit on it so I'm gonna just drop the highlights lift the
shadows lift the clarity lift the vibrance I'm just gonna go into camera
calibration change the profile to camera standard to drop all the warmth back
into the image I'm gonna lift the warmth on it anyway just a little bit more like
so then I'm going to go into detail and add some sharpening back into the image
it's also added a little bit of noise so I'm gonna drop the noise reduction in
luminance up to ten okay
I'm then going to go in and crop
with this image I did use spot metering because of the current weather
conditions so it means that Walters head had to be slap-bang
in the middle of the image. This wasn't great really for composition so I made
sure I left enough room either side to cut back into the aspect ratio that I'd
like which is about there in a 16 by 10 so it's still looking a bit flat and I
think that's because the grass around him is very light so what I'm going to
do is I'm going to use a radial filter which is the
one here I'm just gonna run that over his head so as standard that jumps up
to the exposure and it puts the exposure at 9.5 so I'm going to just clear that
back out I don't want anything to affect that I'm gonna drag the highlights down
and I'm going to lift the clarity and lift the saturation so we've gone from
that to that but his head's left completely alone
okay so I'm just going to add a bit of a bright gradient so I'm going to bring
the gradient from one side of the image down I'm gonna equalize the exposure on
it but lift the highlights and then I'm going to drag that through I'm just
gonna add a bit of warmth okay oh bit too much yellow there that should
be okay a little bit less - that's great okay so the final thing I'm going to do
is go into the brush tool and I'm going to just lift the exposure over his eyes
just so that the eyes are drawn to there when you look at the image finally I'm
just going to use the spot removal tool to clone this bit of grass because it's
really annoying so I'm going to swap that bit of grass for a similar-looking
bit of grass which I think that will probaby match it best I'm just gonna lock
that in and that is probably where I'd stop on that image I'd maybe add a
little bit of contrast and the way I'm going to do that he's not by using the
contrast on here but by going into tone curve and pulling the shadows
down on that side and we're just going to lift
up the highlights a touch so I'm just going to show you the difference that's
made sounds before after before and after so it's given a really
big punch so I could present this to a client quite happily because I love
photoshop so much I would probably take it into Photoshop anyway and just run
a hard sharpen on it to make sure it's prepared for a large print but other
than that that's where I'd stop so we've changed it quite a bit really this
is the before image and this is the after so I'll show you it in a split
like that so you can see the amount of color we've added from here to here and
the amount of detail and clarity that we've put back into Walter - I hope that's
been helpful for you that's a really good way of making sure that all of your
images look similar so then probably batch out those
settings across all of the images that came in with that gallery in the same
lighting conditions but I would remove the local adjustments like the radial
filter and the brush and spot removal because it won't know where the subject
matter is but everything else I would leave in the same - I hope that's been
helpful if it has please let us know if it hasn't then let us know anyway and
we'll trying to sort that out for you next time and if there's anything you'd like
us to cover then let us know that as well! Thank you!