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Dog Photography Tips on Sepia Tones
By KRae Merk | April 7, 2010
I love unusual angled or just plain “different” photos, like the one below. (that’s one dog photography tip to make you photos stand out from the rest)
Now this image is straight out of the camera, no modifications at all. After I studied it for a while, I decided to turn it into a sepia (brown and tan) toned image. What I did to it in Adobe Light Room 2 is, I imported it and went over to develop and started fiddling around. First, I started enhancing the colors then I used a Light Room preset for sepia colors and then played around with exposure, fill light, contrast, & blacks. After I got the desired results, I applied a slight vignette to tone down the bright background made brighter by the sepia tones. Ta-Da! I got the image I wanted.
But then, I started thinking… (that’s dangerous for me) what would happen if I made her eyes blue? Now Candy in real life doesn’t have blue eyes, but I thought it might look cool in this sepia pic. So off to Photoshop. I took the original, made a copy and imported it to Photoshop and used the Hue & Saturation and turned it blue and erased everything but the eyes and duplicated it over to the sepia photo. I resized the eyes and feather erased around the edges till I could turn the eyes layer off and turned back on with no movement, just color change. When that was done I saved it, (of course) and Voile! A blue eyed sepia colored Candy
But then I got to thinking, again, the sepia tone with the blue eyes didn’t quite fit. So I got to playing around with it again in Photoshop. Tried changing the color of eyes, didn’t work… change the sepia tones a little? Didn’t work, (I had to dig into my vast reservoir of dog photography tips) then I converted it black & white. Adjust the contrast a little and then I was really happy.
Feel free to comment on these pictures! I’d enjoy hearing from you!
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Topics: Blog | 2 Comments »
May 3rd, 2010 at 12:45 am
great post as usual!
July 2nd, 2010 at 6:25 am
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