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In San Francisco, under a very orange bus stop canopy. Toned down the resulting weird color hue with Lightroom, and also used it to simulate a nice wide aperture to take attention off the cluttered background.

The bokeh-simulating Lightroom work involved two adjustment brush filters. Each one added a level of blurring (negative sharpening). One was applied to everything in the background, and the other just to things that are closer, mainly Mr. Red Jeans. You can see one place I didn’t quite catch just above the backpack. I think I’ll let that error stay there to avoid spending any further time on this.

There are a few other touch-ups. One is an elliptically shaped radial filter over her face that reduces clarity and sharpness, increases exposure, and shifts color tone.

Overall, I’m pretty proud of this work. And it was just a JPEG exposure.

Tags:   Lightroom San Francisco retouching radial filter adjustment brush sharpening clarity color tone

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This little girl loves chickens. One of my personal favorites, not just the girl but the shot, too!

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