Color Adjustments
Nikon D40 – Exposure .003 sec (1/320) – Aperture f/5 – Focal Length 112mm – ISO 400
SOOC – Straight out of Camera
This was a funky angle I shot of my little man at the park last week. It’s a bit busy but I still really liked the angle. I decided it was a good image to play around with a bit. So first I just adjusted the contrast level like this -
That made the photo look really nice and I really think I could’ve stopped there. I decided to give an old favorite Lightroom preset Antique Fade to see how that would go -
I like the soft focus this preset has. Then I decided to take it a step farther, maybe too far but sometimes actions are just really fun to play with. Like this -
The only other adjustment I made after applying a few actions from the Itty Bitty Actions set was to do a small crop on the right hand side where the wood play area was really over exposed. I’m not sure which is really my favorite, I just play around until something strikes me or sometimes no real adjustments are even needed.
Some other cool places to pick up some Photoshop Actions are:
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