Angel and Rings

[AristonPhotog]

More shots from the ACP Studio. My wife and I collaborated on a series of details shots for the wedding portfolio. The rings belong to my wife and I while the book is the guest book from our wedding back in 2000. This is the typical setup I’ve been using lately with a single 30×60 softbox mounted to an Alien Bees 800 strobe. I did the general exposure processing in Lightroom with more detailed processing in CS2. Once I imported to CS2 from LR, I converted to Lab Color and followed a set of steps I read from ModelMayhem.

1. Add a curves adjustment layer
2. Select the b channel
3. Grab the point in the upper right corner and drag it left two squares (the small squares)
4. Grab the point in the lower left corner and drag it right two squares
5. Switch to the a channel
6. Grab the point in the upper right corner and this time drag it only 1 square left
7. Repeat with the lower left corner dragging right only one square
8. I would normally adjust the Lightness channel, but skipped it this time

At this point I took the completed PSD back into Lightroom and applied a lens correction vignette followed by a standard post crop vignette.

[pjflan7]

damn, that sounds complicated.....that's probably why I don't do any pp. I need to take a class....love the shot though

[AristonPhotog]

Originally Posted by pjflan7

damn, that sounds complicated.....that's probably why I don't do any pp. I need to take a class....love the shot though

Surprisingly enough when you type it out it sounds complicated, but the process itself isn't too bad.

Thanks!