On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 05:29:05PM -0500, Walt wrote: > Thank you, Frank! > > There's even a bit of irony in the jukebox's presence in the shot. > Glenn *hates* the jukebox, and we've butted heads over it many times > in the past. > > I'll see what I can do with burning it. I have never quite gotten a > grasp on how to do that. > > I'll look into some Lightroom tutorials and try my hand at it.
The burn tool is also called the adjustment brush. In Develop, it's in the upper right, and looks like a paintbrush. To start with, zoom in on what you want to burn, click on the brush, a menu will show up, slide exposure all the way as negative as it can go. adjust the size of the brush set flow to 100% and brush over what you want to burn, you'll get a very dark bit on the screen showing where the mask is. Once you have the object masked, you can adjust the exposure slider until it is as dark as you want. That's the brute force way of doing it. You can also set it to a more reasonable amount of darkening, set the flow to a smaller amount and just brush on darkening, until it's where you want. This way you can darken the edges a little bit by brushing them slightly, and the center more. Likewise, when setting the size of the brush, you can set it to feather the edges, where the center circle gets all of the flo and the outside circle gets increasingly less. The third thing you can play with is the auto mask where it will only do the brush on stuff that match the color of the point in the center. I wouldn't worry about using that right now. Now that I've given you a quick and easy explanation of how to do it, I think I can count on the experts on the list to correct me. For what it's worth, in the darkroom, we'd do the same thing by punchng a hole in a piece of cardboard, and exposing the print a bit longer by moving the hole around the area we wanted to burn in. To make it lighter, we'd do something very similar except we'd use a small piece of cardboard to "dodge", i.e. block the light while we were exposing the rest of the image. BTW, when using the adjustment brush on shots in color to de-emphasize something in the background, in an otherwise dark room, you can also dial down the saturation. > > Thanks for the input! > > -- Walt > > On 4/24/2013 4:55 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >That's a great photo! > > > >Like the way the jukebox in the background mirrors his head position, but I > >might burn it just a little bit. > > > >None the less this is an amazing portrait. > > > >Cheers, > >frank > > > >--- Original Message --- > > > >From: Walt <[email protected]> > >Sent: April 24, 2013 4/24/13 > >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > >Subject: PESO: Glenn > > > >Here's another one of my workplace shots, this one of a daily customer. > > > >http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8678146012/ > ><http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8678146012/> > >K-5, FA 50/1.4, ISO 6400, 1/60 > > > >Glenn was as much a preening dandy as you could imagine just a few years > >ago. Since then, his longtime live-in girlfriend left him and he's > >thrown in the towel over the past couple of years. I thought this shot > >captured the grimness of his descent. > > > >Comments and suggestions appreciated. > > > >Thanks! > > > >-- Walt > > > >P/S: The K-5 is still impressing the hell out of me in low light. > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
