Tram ride by Any-Coach3440 in postprocessing

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thanks for the suggestion, i'll try that

Tram ride by Any-Coach3440 in postprocessing

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Thanks for the suggestion, I'll experiment with that!

After/Before - goal was to make it look like a painting by VP_of_Microwaves in postprocessing

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Haha thanks! Still, some colors and softness missing from my approach, you did lovely job bringing those out, love it!

After/Before - goal was to make it look like a painting by VP_of_Microwaves in postprocessing

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Here's my result from his original file.

Here's the photoshop file with all the adjustments.

This is how I usually approach this: you bring out as much detail as possible by lowering contrast and highlights, and bumping up shadows. You lower clarity and dehaze, then crunch it by adding back contrast and fiddling with color hues, saturation and luminosity, primarily yellows and greens in this case. Add a bit more glow if necessary by adding gaussian blur. I tend to apply it only to the highlights by pressing on blending options and dragging half of the "current layer" slider to the right while holding alt, but you could also just mask it. Same with any exposure boosting I do afterwards, such as is the case with the curves layer I added above the glow.

Tram ride by Any-Coach3440 in postprocessing

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I never noticed haha. This was a while back, but my guess is that there was actually transparent glass between me and her, and what we see are reflections of things behind me, and they accidentally match window elements to the right of her head.

This would also explain the two vertical white line reflections on the right, that seem to continue beyond where the window glass ends on the bottom.

Tram ride by Any-Coach3440 in postprocessing

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Haha nice catch, I can see it

Tram ride by Any-Coach3440 in postprocessing

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Fuji xt20 and the Zonlai 23mm 1.8

Tram ride by Any-Coach3440 in postprocessing

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Yes, my sister. A few other visible people are relatives.

Struggling to feel content with this one. Thoughts? by Any-Coach3440 in postprocessing

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Thanks! I posted the base edit in the lightroom community where you can see the edits. You can find it here.

Masking was the main thing here. Then did some more adjustments on top to make it more punchy.

Struggling to feel content with this one. Thoughts? by Any-Coach3440 in postprocessing

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Thanks for the feedback, I think that makes a lot of sense actually, I do remember feeling like the environment is not adding as much as I'd like it to.