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Hi All!
There is a farming company here in Australia that is running a calendar competition that I’m planning on entering. The theme is ‘farming moments’ and the deadline is July 31st. Last week I faced the cold winter mornings we’re having at the moment to capture some lambs playing in the morning sunshine. 🙂 I chose my favourite out of the photos I took, but I’m having a hard time with the editing. The light was beautiful, but very high contrast. In the editing I was hoping to make the lambs look clearer, but I’m not happy with the editing I tried. I was wondering if anyone had any tips for how they would go about editing this picture? I’ll attach the original, unedited version. Thankyou!
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Hi there @creative-click-photography, it looks like a great photo! However, you image size is really small! Please change the length up to 2000 pixels. I look forward to editing it; editing is fun. I’ll edit it, share what I did, and give suggestions.
Thankyou, @hannah-f! Hmmm, I’m not sure why it’s so small. Let’s try this again. 🙂 Let me know if this works better.
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Wow, that’s a challenging photo to edit, @creative-click-photography!
@hannah-f try clicking on the thumbnail image to open the photo in the forum “lightbox” viewer. Then right-click and “Save image as…”Right now, I’m guessing you’re just saving the thumbnail which is why you’re getting such a small photo. 🙂
@creative-click-photography and @lenspirationlydia: Yes, I finally got to open the photo where it was clear. Thank you Lydia. I didn’t realize that clicking the photo while in the “lightbox view” would help! Thanks.
@creative-click-photography, what a wonderful shot of playful lambs. I have placed my two edits of your photo. In my personal opinion, I feel that this photo was a bit overexposed, and the shutter speed could have been raised from 1/640 to possibly 1/1000 or lower your ISO to 100 instead of 320. However, at the same time, this was a great shot because you apparently took it around golden hour and this reminds me of a great senior photo!
To work with the bright lighting of the photo, I think this would be a great photo to convert to Black and White (B&W), because I believe you are wanting the focus to be on the lambs. To draw more focus on the lambs, I had to crop from the right side (sorry that your watermark got cut off).
For the photo, I increased contrast, reduced saturation, reduced the color and normal noise, added a bit of clarity, and by using the computer version of Lightroom I was able to place a mask on the left lamb to separate it from the background a bit. For cropping, I used the two-thirds rule like for landscapes and the sky. The two-thirds rule states to either allow the sky to “win”, to have dominance of the photo, by having the sky be in the upper two-thirds of the photo, or to allow the landscape/scenery to win by having the landscape be in the lower two-thirds of the photo. For your photo, I allowed the landscape “to win” because that is where the focus of the photo is. I hope that makes sense and is clear!If you are able to take this shot again at around the same time, I’d increase your shutter speed to over 1/800-1000 and or lower your ISO.
It’s a great photo! I hope this is helpful to you. Thanks for letting me edit your photo!
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@hannah-f, thank you for taking the time to tell me your thoughts on this photo and for sharing about how you edited it. 🙂 I think I like the crop you suggested, thank you!
Hi @creative-click-photography! I love your picture of the lambs. I do especially love the lighting as it looks very artistic. Personally, I like the picture uncropped because I’ve always liked extra space in images. Great job on this picture – I really like it!
Just played around with a quick edit on this! Personally, I’m not feeling the need for a crop…I might edit out the yellow flare in the bottom right, though. Not entirely sure this edit is what I’d stick with, but I was just feeling like it needed to have a lighter, airy feel due to the sun flare going on. All the other edits felt heavy to me, personally.
I’ve attached my edited version, a before/after screenshot, and a screenshot of the edits I applied.
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Enjoyed taking a look at these photos in the webinar, @creative-click-photography! Here’s the link to the replay. Critique on this topic begins at minute 01:30:28!
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