Heavily edited iphone photo

[jw10]

My daughter had this photo taken with an iphone 6. It had possibilities, I worked it over pretty hard with Darktable, involved using 8 different lighting adjustments with as many masks. Denoising a few spots. Her hand in the shadow was just atrocious, had to do that last with GIMP.

I adjusted lighting to draw more attention to her face, and tried to eliminate some distractions.

Overall, do you like the changes? Comments and critique are most welcome, I'm still learning.

Original from iphone

After edits



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[nand]

Nand.

My daughter had this photo taken with an iphone 6. It had possibilities, I worked it over pretty hard with Darktable, involved using 8 different lighting adjustments with as many masks. Denoising a few spots. Her hand in the shadow was just atrocious, had to do that last with GIMP.

I adjusted lighting to draw more attention to her face, and tried to eliminate some distractions.

Overall, do you like the changes? Comments and critique are most welcome, I'm still learning.

Original from iphone

After edits

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Jeff (aka jw10)

 

[Babine]

A bit too monotone for my likes. Added back some colour.

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[Joachim B]

I think you did too much work for too little effect. You can also be too picky about the quality of an image. It is taken with a phone, and in my opinion there is no real need to hide that. Especially not when the picture is most likely viewed back on phones or other small screens.

What I did: imported the picture with AppleRGB color space and converted to sRGB to make the colors a bit more lively, and applied an S-curve to to up the contrast a bit.

 

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[hikerdoc]

Congratulations to your lovely daughter!

I actually prefer her original photo.

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[rpps]

Using ACR and Dehaze

 

[Daviskw]

Messed it up I'm afraid.

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[jw10]

Thank you all for the replies. Nand, I immediately saw the improvement from your edit -- needed to adjust the color balance, and bump up the saturation. As Babine commented the image was too monotone, and I completely agree. rpps had a good idea to just crop out the circular lens flare. I had wondered if dehaze might help, and it looks like it did.

Again, thanks to all of you, I'll head back to my PP software with some excellent suggestions for improvement.

 

[jw10]

This is where I was able to get to. I decided to leave it uncropped, my daughter can do that if she wants on her own. Still a lot of targeted edits. I don't have an easy dehaze option (on linux), but I think this looks pretty good now. Thanks again everyone!

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[rpps]

I just loaded your last photo into ACR and used Dehaze and then in Photoshop used clone tool to even the sky out on LHS and also take lens flare away on RHS. Your photo is pretty good my edit of it using Dehaze helped a little. I also removed the spotlights which I think are a bit distracting.

 

[jw10]

I just loaded your last photo into ACR and used Dehaze and then in Photoshop used clone tool to even the sky out on LHS and also take lens flare away on RHS. Your photo is pretty good my edit of it using Dehaze helped a little. I also removed the spotlights which I think are a bit distracting.

Yep, that's better. I agree about the spotlights, nice catch. Thank you!

 

[Stevil]

Here's my attempt. It's a tough one.