I love the moment I captured in this photo I took of my brother and his wife at their wedding last week, but I just feel like there is too much stuff going on in the background...
Do any of you fancy having a go at editing it so that more attention is drawn to the happy couple, rather than the background? Or alternatively, please give me some tips on how I can improve it myself!
I can send you the original file if you give me your email address...
You could remove the entire background and make it all about them... I'll write down my email on one of your earlier photo's and you can send me the original to show you what I mean..
I was thinking along the lines of what Elke was saying...If you know photoshop or GIMP, you can do a selection path around the couple, then zoom in and fine tune it to make it perfect, then copy it out of this pic and then paste it into any background you want. That is hard though....hard to get the right "reality" look when you do that.
How about this, crop to the waistline, so you can just see his hands on her waist, to the edge of their backs and the top of his head. this will bring attention to the moment rather than what they are wearing and where they are. Then blur, erase the blur from just them, then clone out the man directly next to the bride. email me for my (30 second) edit if you're interested on the result. lorraine.r.b@gmail.com
It depends on whether you want to keep them in context or not. I use Lightroom 3.x and I would use negative Highlight Priority(darken the edges) to darken the background and adjust the 'fill light' to highlight the couple more.
I was playing around with this in picmonkey.com. Using the textures, I could place the people in the background in silhoette and paint the couple so they are in color. Just paint the parts that you don't want covered works pretty well. You can also upload you own picture to use as a texture. It works like selective coloring. Might be worth a look.
Also returned it to you via e-mail :-) Basically masked the happy couple out of the pic, did a massive series of blur (Gaussian, lens & box blur & took the saturation down) to the background, a crop, a noise reduction to the couple, applied a little high pass sharpening to some details, and a few more bits and pieces to get them blending in better with the background
@dmortega Just curious Dorrena, I love picmonkey and textures. Just curious how you mean to paint the background in silhouette. Its the silhouette part I'm confused about.
When you apply the textures you can choose how it will be display. If you click on the down arrow other options will come up. Some of these really darkent the background. You could then paint over the couple, like what Elke has done. I kinda liked having the people in the back but not the focus. It's just a different thing to play around with.
@elke@lorraineb Thank you so much for taking the time to edit my photo. I love both of your edits and you've given me lots of ideas of how to improve my post-processing skills!
@dmortega Thank you for the tips Dorrena - I'll definitely give that a try!
Thanks to everybody who replied - you guys are great and i appreciate all the help and advice!
so i've had a go at editing these, using all of your tips. what do you think of my options? please be honest! any further advice much appreciated... i'm trying to get an edit i'm happy with to then get it printed for my brother :)
3 Because the background is there but not as obvious as the other tow. Yeah, I like the sepia one. It's really nice and the texture adds a party feel. Very nice.
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Also returned it to you via e-mail :-) Basically masked the happy couple out of the pic, did a massive series of blur (Gaussian, lens & box blur & took the saturation down) to the background, a crop, a noise reduction to the couple, applied a little high pass sharpening to some details, and a few more bits and pieces to get them blending in better with the background
@dmortega Thank you for the tips Dorrena - I'll definitely give that a try!
Thanks to everybody who replied - you guys are great and i appreciate all the help and advice!
so i've had a go at editing these, using all of your tips. what do you think of my options? please be honest! any further advice much appreciated... i'm trying to get an edit i'm happy with to then get it printed for my brother :)
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Thank you guys. How about this one? i've removed the texture completely, just added a sepia tone and blurred out the background. what do you think?