Didn't want to steal UF's thread, so I started this one.
My process is almost identical to his. I've actually had this up for a while, just thought it might be interesting in light of Frank's thread.
The step by step details are here:
http://www.ximinasphotography.com/lessons/lesson07/workflow.html - there's 5 pages, so the part with photoshop comes at the end.
This one was actually pulled from the bin for an example that goes through my entire post processing steps. Most of my images are not this bad and I basically just batch process my NEF's through NC to make TIFFs with minor corrections to a few.
Original image:
Final image:
A before and after example:
Is all this unethical? I dunno, but it gets me end results like these that my clients are happy with:
My process is almost identical to his. I've actually had this up for a while, just thought it might be interesting in light of Frank's thread.
The step by step details are here:
http://www.ximinasphotography.com/lessons/lesson07/workflow.html - there's 5 pages, so the part with photoshop comes at the end.
This one was actually pulled from the bin for an example that goes through my entire post processing steps. Most of my images are not this bad and I basically just batch process my NEF's through NC to make TIFFs with minor corrections to a few.
Original image:
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Final image:
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A before and after example:

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Is all this unethical? I dunno, but it gets me end results like these that my clients are happy with:

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