In a recent post featuring a photo from the Kilmainham Gaol Museum, I talked about the use of color to convey a mood. Today’s post is related, just approaching the edit in a different way. Here is the original file:
ISO 3200 f/11 1/13sec 21mm
The edits made below were to make this already chilling jail seem colder:
ISO 3200 f/11 1/13sec 21mm
You can let me know in the comments section if you think this is successful. The first edit was to crop, straighten, and remove the lens distortion from this image. I also dropped the highlights slider. That was all on the first layer. On layer 2 I’ve applied the LUT, Cool Blue B&W, and adjusted the amount to 62. On layer 3 the filter Matte look was applied with an amount of 42 and a fade of 20. Layer 4 has the Accent AI filter and a vignette.
This edit was inspired by the Len-Artist Challenge, Cold.
Cheers!
The Made with Luminar Series
This image is part of a project I am calling Made with Luminar. What the images in this series have in common is the software used to edit them, Luminar 3. As with my usual blog posts particulars of the camera settings can be found in the caption below the image. I’ll then explain what other filters and edits have been applied, often mentioning what layer and therefore order that they were applied. The text of these posts includes any Luminar “Looks” that have been applied to the photo. Each look is a series of presets that are applied to the photo. Where applicable I will mention what changes I have made to any of the looks. A full explanation of looks is available here on their website, https://skylum.com/luminar/user-guides/chapter-14-working-with-luminar-looks
You can assume basic edits have been applied. My most common edits are cropping, detail enhancement, and vignette. Specific questions or thoughts on the image are welcome in the comment section below.
Cold colour and steel – good combo for the challenge.
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Thanks Leya!
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I agree Amy, definitely cooler in your edited image. What a chilling place
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Yes, it was a chilling place. Good that it is a museum now though, I think it is good for societies when they can acknowledge both the good and bad.
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You certainly succeeded in accomplishing what you wanted with the photograph. It was a lot colder in appearance. Also, I loved the angles and the lines in the image.
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Thank you. All those lines and angles are really what made me interested in taking the image, so thanks for noticing that 🙂
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Yes, it’s successful, though in this instance I prefer the original. Must be my sunny nature 🙂 🙂
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Yes, that’s probably it 🙂 I think there would be an opportunity here to do a warmer edit which would be interesting in the contrast it would be to the subject matter.
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I think it does feel colder and more forbidding!
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Thank you.
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I think it does look colder and more chilling!
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Thanks very much.
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I think it does look colder – but i am curious to see it edited but without the crop -and wonder how that lower right being left in would look –
but nice take on cold – I have never seen covered stairs like that in a jail but I bet common
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That’s an interesting thought on the crop. In this edit, that corner was lost because I had chosen to focus on making the image straighter. It does make for an interesting corner though, so would be worth revisiting.
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Great lines and perspective. Yes, the steel gray is cold.
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Thanks very much!
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