Comments on: Two Girls, One Shot

By: LeDave

LeDave — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:39:26 +0000

Wow! Excellent post processing tutorial, thanks a lot!

By: Keitha

Keitha — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:44:08 +0000

Thanks for commenting, everyone!

To answer Mike’s question (great to see you here, by the way!), sometimes I know exactly how I want it to look with the presets I already have, sometimes I just scroll over the presets and see what looks best, and most of the time it’s in between those two.

For instance, with this shot, I knew I wanted it to be black-and-white, and I have about 10 presets for that. Four of them give a really dark and gritty final product, so those were out. Two give a high-key look, and I didn’t want that. So that left four others to choose from. I chose the one that did the best of bringing out these girls’ skin tones and eyes and refined from there.

By: Doug McMinimy

Doug McMinimy — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:37:47 +0000

I loved this photo when I saw it on Flickr a week or two ago. So it is a real treat to see what your work flow was in creating it. I may have to ask Santa for Lightroom for Christmas just so I can follow your tutorials step by step! Thanks for taking the time to share.

By: Mike McEnaney (emem)

Mike McEnaney (emem) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:51:51 +0000

Hi Keitha,
I saw your post on DPreview and followed your link to here. I’m wondering if, when you begin the post processing “process”, do you have a particular “look” in mind that you’re trying to acheive, or do you just move through the process and see what transpires at each step before moving on to the next? A deliberate, step by step workflow to an inevitable and predetermined final product or a “suck it and see” kind of progress?
Very excellent images, btw.

By: Herman Lee

Herman Lee — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:58:53 +0000

Nice work, Keitha! As always :)
I appreciate you sharing this method since I have some portrait shots to pp.
I guess I’ll try this method at home.
Thanks.