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Playing with Color Grading in LR

Antonio Correia

Well-known member
Hey all !
The new features of LR are just great ! The program evolves in a very interesting way allowing to go less and less into CC if dramatic changes are not required.
Like the shot of Ronaldo with Messy which I am sure you all have seen. In this hot I was attracted again by the duotone or the color grading as you wish to call it.
The original photograph is quite different from the one below, thanks to some hours of work.


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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Very interesting, Antonio.

I think color grading has potential for creating a recognizable signature style for one’s portfolio.

Websites talk much more these days of color grading these days. It used to be just for gettingvthr mood for major movies!

Explain Ronaldo and Messy??

Is Messy short for Messiah?

Can you give us the original too!

Asher
 

Antonio Correia

Well-known member
Hey Asher ! :)
Here a short article about the image by Annie.
The original photograph is posted below.
However, looking again I prefer the crop of the photograph shown at the bottom even if the void of the door on the right, betrayed me. I should have seen it on location ! :mad:
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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Ahah,

I was wondering who in your family was Annie!

Yes, the colorization is brilliant in her picture too.

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I wonder who she relies on for her retouching. A decade ago there was an article about him but I cannot find it. It showed some original examples of her shots and then after it went to the Retoucher. (One current Retoucher of hers is Becci Manzo)

As to your picture, you need that door open as according to Leonard Cohen, “There’s a crack in everything:that’s where the light gets in!”
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Praying With Color Grading

Your work is excellent! You also do retouching yourself and still get a brilliant result! If you had Madonna on her kneees praying you would exceed her millions of “looks” online!

The crack to let the light in, is key!
 
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