The winner of last week’s Fix Your Photo Facebook Friday contest is MaryAnn Rhyno with her photo of Kuper the German Shepherd. MaryAnn made my job very easy because she took a wonderful photo that didn’t need much fixing at all.
Here is the before:
Here is the after:
Tips on taking this type of photo:
This is a great photo to start with. It looks like MaryAnn took this photo in the shade with a light source in front of the dog which produced a nice catch light in his eyes. She zoomed in real close and cropped the photo in a manner that really keeps the viewer’s interest. The only thing that I did to this photo was to make the colors pop and I brought out some detail in the fur. To do this in your camera, you can try to use your Landscape setting. This setting will tell the camera to increase the saturation of the colors and sharpen the photo a little. You will only want to use this setting if your subject is able to sit real still because depending on how sunny it is outside, it may need to use a slower shutter speed. This means that if there is even the slightest amount of movement by you or the dog, the photo will look blurry.
Tips on editing this type of photo:
If you have a basic photo editing program, just increase the contrast, saturation and sharpness a little bit.
If you are an advanced photographer, read on…
I used the Adjust 4 plugin from Topaz Labs for Photoshop, which I just LOVE. There are many different adjustment presets available. I ran three different ones to get the amount of detail and color pop that I liked – Exposure Correction, Mild Colop Pop then Photo Pop. Then I used the dodge and burn tools to bring out the dark and light areas of his eyes.
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