This is the second of the Lightroom experiments. If you click on this picture to enlarge it you can click on the previous and next buttons to better see the differences between before and after.
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| Before Photo |
This shot was not taken in black and white. In low light conditions black and white is your failsafe, me thinks. When the shot is just too mucked up for color to look good you revert to B&W to save it. In this case, the lighting was not just low it was incredibly mixed and uneven.
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| After Photo. Note that the MudQueens logo is visible. While other things were lightened too, that banner is the most noticable thing. |
If you saw this shot in color you would note that the card girl was either in bright white or a brilliant, near-white yellow while Jackie Daniels (left), the ref and Calamity Pain (right) are in deep blue. By making the card girl look white you made the trio too dark to come out worth a damn. balancing the wrestlers colors gives them an attractive, light blue look but gives Card Girl a jaundiced look.
What to do? What to do? Resort to black and white.
As you can see, this is not high art. But then, it's mud wrestling, not Botticelli. If this were to turn out just the way I wanted, it would look like it belonged as a poster in some Noir movie. It should look 30's or 40's nostalgic, not artsy.
One last note - I did not sharpen this shot though it could definitely use it. Frankly, I needed to get home and have lunch. Low sugar was giving me "the vapors," so I opted for the quick edit.
As always, if you have any comments or criticisms drop them in the comments.
The wrestlers are the MudQueens of Chicago - http://www.mudqueens.com/
The venue is the Viaduct Theater - http://www.viaducttheatre.com/cms/
And the tutorial that gave me insites from from Fro Knows Photo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EURb_ZbxzRY
Check out all three - they are worth the time!
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