It's time for the November One Photo Focus challenge. This month's image is provided courtesy of Julie Powell. Be sure to visit Stacy’s page to see each participant's edit of this image.
The first thing I did after importing this image to Adobe Lightroom was adjusted the vertical perspective. To me, the original image seemed titled. I used the Guided tool and aligned based on the cardboard box on the right-hand side. The adjustment was -4.8, and I enabled constrain crop while I worked on it.
I then applied lens correction to remove any chromatic aberrations and enabled profile corrections and applied the default, cropped the image to remove the box and the light source from the frame and sat back to consider my next steps.
I messed around with a few filter presets before settling on this one. It's a Wet Plate preset called Chocolate Shadows. I don't remember where I found the preset, but I like how it darkened the shadows including the distracting background and floor.
What do you think?
Very nice!
Hi Khurt I really like your edit, nice and soft and cropped quite well
Ii like the processing and the fact that you got rid of the text and distracting upper left corner.