Photoshop Phix

I’ve posted this after picture before but thought I’d share the before.

I usually shoot most of my sessions in RAW but sometimes switch to JPG when I shoot my kids (just to save some processing time on my family snapshots).

Here is this picture, SOOC and converted to JPG:

And here it is fixed.

I know the sky is too light but I don’t care since now I can see her face. If this was for a client, I’d probably work more on not blowing out the sky before I took the picture, since that’s hard to undo, but since it’s just Mallory being silly in my dad’s driveway – I wasn’t too worried about the technicalities. A lot of times when you have to lighten up a picture this much, you get a lot of “noise” (graininess) and converting to black & white is an easy way to hide that grain. I don’t mind the B&W here either since there were a lot of colors that would distract from her bike-riding form.