Life in a side street

[Parsen66]

So, for a change, I thought I would post a before and after processing. Not because I think I'm great or it's an amazing shot, more to show the difference processing can make especially when shot in RAW (sorry to drag that elephant out again )

Typically we all post the after shot and I often wonder what it looked like before and from that we can all learn different processing methods, again not because I'm the best, far from it.

This is OOC, not editing or processing just exported from LR as a jpeg

EZ5A8990 by Alan Reeve, on Flickr

And this after my workflow. In LR my usual drop the highlights, lift the shadows, set the white and black points and apply lens correction, CA and verticals corrected. From there over to Aurora (which I love) for the final elements. To be able to target each area with a different layer, mask and brush makes such a difference. Yes I know PS allows that too but it's still a little beyond me

Life in a Nice side street by Alan Reeve, on Flickr

Anyway, hope you like the end result and my explanation of how I went about the processing.

PS, I'm not great or good or amazing, just to clarify things

[ColytonJohn]

Re: Life in a side street

Very good indeed Proof, if it was ever needed, of the dramatic improvements processing can make.

Cheers,
John

[Tigger]

Re: Life in a side street

thats some transformation and whilst like you don't want to box THAT box again, but it shows what you can pull from a good raw file...

plus excellent shot

[Parsen66]

Re: Life in a side street

Very good indeed Proof, if it was ever needed, of the dramatic improvements processing can make.

Cheers,
John

Thanks John. I never ceases to amaze me the power of processing

thats some transformation and whilst like you don't want to box THAT box again, but it shows what you can pull from a good raw file...

plus excellent shot

sshhhhhh and thanks mate

[Nathaniel]

Re: Life in a side street

Excellent transformation of a mundane picture. Well done. Quite educational!

[Parsen66]

Re: Life in a side street

Excellent transformation of a mundane picture. Well done. Quite educational!

Thanks for the 'mundane picture' Nat.......

[Tigger]

Re: Life in a side street

mundane Nat - thats a bit harsh..It shows european life, ticking all the boxes you would expect to see in an image like this

[tesarver]

Re: Life in a side street

Nice processing. You did well

Tom

[Parsen66]

Re: Life in a side street

Nice processing. You did well

Tom

Thanks Tom

[Stan]

Re: Life in a side street

An excellent illustration of what you can do if you shoot RAW

Stan

[@imagesBV]

Re: Life in a side street

A really good application of significant post processing.....that is to say I don't think it should be applied to that degree for everything but works superbly here.

[Parsen66]

Re: Life in a side street

An excellent illustration of what you can do if you shoot RAW

Stan

A really good application of significant post processing.....that is to say I don't think it should be applied to that degree for everything but works superbly here.

Thanks Stan and Brian.

Usually wouldn't process a shot quite this far but for me the subject can carry it off