I was lazy last weekend and didn’t write up the photo. Took it and uploaded it though.

Originally this was going to be taken and processed with flash. I had it set up and it looked quite impressive. 2 Flashes, one from each side to try and get a nice even light/reflection across the chrome – a strip softbox would be ideal, but unfortunately I can’t afford one… yet. Since this is a light sabre, and it has it’s own light, I figured I’d give that a go. Turns out it looked really good. Best thing to improve this image is if I had a seamless black background (paper or muslin). Not much processing at all apart from all the touch ups removing the dog hair from the couch.

This weeks photo is a bit of an experiment in processing. In particular the border.

A nice chinese statue from near the Princess Theater on Spring St in Melbourne. A bit of an experiment in using a “sloppy” border which I quite like (I don’t think it would work putting a title on the image though). The other experiment comes from watching Photoshop User TV and a suggestion of using the sharpen brush (which wouldn’t have been touched in previous versions). I did some selective sharpening with this on some of the high detail areas to make them pop out more. On top of this, I’ve played around with some Lightroom presets to get a bit more of a vivid/saturated look out of it.