1.21.11 Morning Routine - Shoot n Edit Week 2

Greetings blogging friends!  Well it's time for part 2 of week two's Shoot n Edit.

Here are all the details about the Shoot and Edit 2 part photo Challenge.

This week's theme or prompt was to show us one shot SOOC that says “Good Morning” to you

Today we will be linking up my edited image over at Ashley's for her editing tutorial.

Do you recall my SOOC shot that I shared on Monday?  Now you don't have to go digging for it, I will post it again.  

Here is the SOOC original.

 There were several things that I needed to do to this photo, things that I thought would improve the overall apperance.

One was to get rid of the annoying blown-out areas.  I don't know about you, but my eyes seem to always want to go to the lightest area of a photo. 

White balance was pretty good overall but could be a bit better.  

Here is how I achieved my finally edited image.

    This is the original settings                  Here is how I set it up.                      Here is my curves adjustment

These were all done in ACR.

I set the white balance by clicking on a grey shaded area which was close by the handle of the mixing bowl.

Second I added in a bit more black for contrast as shooting in raw format leaves photos looking a bit flat.

Then I added the S curve to balance out the highlights and shadows.

 I don't add any sharpening in ACR, that is don't last in CS$

This is pretty much my workflow.

1st - I ran the image through my noiseware program alowing me to remove and digital noise and to give it it first round of sharpening.

2nd -  leveles adjustment with a mask layer applied so that I could remove any bright spots.

3rd -  I used the quick select tool to select the blown out area in the upper left.  Added in a cream color and took it off where it was close to the handle and counter top.

4th - Jerry b4 Jones stained texture soft light added twice and taken off the eggs at 25%

5th - Levels addjustment and masked off the bright spots

6th - Lowered the saturation

7th - High pass sharpen

BTW - I did a crop before I sent the image to noiseware.

So are you ready to see the final out come?  I don't know about you but I thing that it worked.  Sometimes seeing photos that have hot spots, the only thing left to do it hit the delete button.  I need to try and see if I could save this one.

Here it is, what do you think, improved or not?

Here is a smaller side by side view