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#How to make brown eyes pop in lightroom skin#
#How to make brown eyes pop in lightroom iso#

By moving the mask slider (with the option key pressed) until skin texture isn’t being affected, you are essentially applying the sharpening only to the areas where you want it. Masking basically sets the threshold for when sharpening will be applied.

Holding down the option key shows you a gray-scale version of the sharpening mask being used ‘ light areas will be sharpened and dark areas will not. Raising it brings out the blemishes.Īdd a sharpen mask ‘ I zoom in on the eyes then hold down the Option key (Mac) and drag the Masking slider around until the skin texture isn’t being affected and only the eyes are showing with white lines in them. Clarity adjusts the edge contrast and lowering it has the effect of softening skin.

Soften skin by lowering Clarity to approximately -15.

Note, this is easier said than done with a 6 month old who is learning to crawl and thinks that the big box in front of Daddy’s face is oh so interesting.Īfter adjusting exposure and getting rid of any obvious blemishes with the healing tool, I do a few things: If you didn’t get the focus right on the eyes in your original exposure, no amount of post-processing will help and you might as well just try again. Of course, the process begins when you are taking the shot ‘ put that focus point right on the eye nearest to you. Since the eyes are the window to the soul, it is critical that they “pop.” Most of my editing involves getting the eyes to look great without looking unnatural. With the thousands of pictures I’ve taken of my son, I’ve managed to figure out a few quick and dirty tricks to edit these pictures fairly quickly. In this case, it was a shoot-through umbrella camera right and a bare strobe camera left for fill.īut this post isn’t about lighting. You can see from the catch-lights in his eyes that I have two strobes set up, one small (or far away) and one larger (or closer). This shot of my son with his Turtle Truck (and his tongue hanging out) is an example where I just grabbed two flashes and started playing. I’ve gotten pretty decent at guessing the right settings to use to get the effect I want. Most of the time I keep one flash on a stand with an umbrella ready to go and one bare. I have also been playing around with off camera lighting a lot recently.

#How to make brown eyes pop in lightroom iso#

It’s just the right focal length for portraits of my little guy and I can take indoor shots at ISO 1600 at f/1.8 with a nice shallow depth of field. I barely ever have a lens other than the Canon EF 50mm/1.8 on anymore. With the new addition to the household has come a big change in my photographic focus. It’s been seven months since I last updated the blog (Why do I feel like I’m going into a confession booth or something?) and the picture here should explain why. Anyone who has played peekaboo with their kid will probably recognize the above exchange.