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Ready to Fire
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This was the best of three shots taken of this cadet. I then cropped it square, removed the car’s number plate with the repair tool, and adjusted levels in Aperture. Next I went into Photoshop and used Noise Ninja to smooth his face by applying a mask to the Noise Ninja results. I then duplicated the layer and used a High Pass filter to sharpen just his eyes (using a mask again). I flattened the image and decided the background was too obtrusive so I selected all of the cadet apart from his hands and created a new layer from the selection. I then reduced the brightness of the original image using an adjustment layer and the image was flattened again. I still felt the background was too strong so I selected the cadet again (including his hands) and using adjustment layers, I reduced the brightness of the background and added some Gaussian blur. My CCF Weapons set is here on flickr. IMG_8147.
[...] image was taken at the same time as this one, “Ready To Fire”, I posted earlier. It was shot with a Canon 450D and processed first in iPhoto and now in Aperture. I used f9 [...]