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Posted by Jan (Bruges, Belgium) on 6 January 2008 in People & Portraits and Portfolio.

During the photography lessons, we were told that the maximum range black-white one can 'record' without losing (too many) details is about 6 stops. This one was shot with my old Canon 350D. The Canon 40D uses 14bit conversion, so the full range will be larger than 6 stops.

As you have noticed from my previous posts, I like to play around with Lightroom's settings. Vignetting is very useful here to mask out the top left and top right. The original can be seen here.

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Comments (17)

Brandon Price from Mariupol, Ukraine

Wow, that is an incredible conversion! Beautiful picture and great colors! I love the reflection in her eyes.

6 Jan 2008 12:40am

Justin Haaheim from New Haven, CT, United States

Hey. Great shot, and great post processing. Admittedly, with the wide eyes the baby looks a little scary, but I really like the skin tones you've achieved. Can you talk more about what kinds of things you did in Lightroom to achieve that semi-unsaturated metallic look?

6 Jan 2008 1:28am

@Justin Haaheim: First of all, thanks for you appreciation. And now, some explanation:
- Use all 'Basic' sliders to adjust the black and white to get maximum spread in the histogram, enhance or reduce black and/or white parts with recovery, fill light, blacks, brightness and contrast. The Presence gives the special effect by reducing the saturation quite a lot, almost minimum, and then increasing the vibrance.
- Split toning allows you to 'change' colors both in highlights and shadows. Only the highlights are touched here, giving it more an orange look
- Vignetting is one of my favorites, because it enhances the focus to the center of the picture. Maximum was applied here.

Hope this helps,
Jan.

eddy from Tehran, Iran

what a cute look

6 Jan 2008 4:17am

Ina from Krugersdorp, South Africa

Awesome capture Jan! I love what you did here, great work!

6 Jan 2008 6:03am

JeBeKe from Bruges, Belgium

@all : Thanks for your comments

6 Jan 2008 6:27am

maziyar from tehran, Iran

very good shot.colour and exposure are very effective and babies look is very lovely.composition is very good too.

6 Jan 2008 6:32am

shahab from Qazvin, Iran

Excellent close-up!Superb!Bravo!!!

6 Jan 2008 7:16am

Accio from Singapore, Singapore

love what you have done with it.

6 Jan 2008 10:57am

T-Daddy from Dachsbach, nähe Erlangen, Germany

Ein sehr sehr schönes Kinderportrait

6 Jan 2008 1:55pm

Laurent from Lyon, France

wonderful portrait with a beautiful expression.
I like the very close framing and the light. I don't understand your explaination except the fact that you seems to now what light is.

6 Jan 2008 4:58pm

Dean Francis from Midwest, United States

The eye is perfect. That's what drew me in. Good work. By the way, take everything they (experts, including others, and me) with a grain of salt. Van Gogh was told that he lacked any talent and his brush strokes were clumsy messing on the canvas. Push that fstop all the way until it screams.

6 Jan 2008 10:29pm

Aaron Schmidt from Auckland, New Zealand

Excellent post production on this. The end result is a top quality shot.

7 Jan 2008 4:59am

Eleftheria, 9 years old, from Athens, Greece

Bravo!

10 Jan 2008 8:46am

JeBeKe from Bruges, Belgium

@all: Thanks for your comments. My number of comments record on one picture has been broken :D

19 Jan 2008 4:51pm

Frankie from Boxmeer, Netherlands

Also a very beautiful shoulder shot and nice pp

20 Jan 2008 5:51am

Thomas from Koolkerke, Belgium

If you use lightroom and you want to recreate this effect you can download the '300' preset at http://inside-lightroom.com/colour.php Just search for 300 on that page and you'll find it.

20 Jan 2008 8:09am