As part of the festivities for Brighton Pride 2008, local drag queens (Lady James – left – and Sally Vate – right) prepare to “Zorb” down Devil’s Dyke! What’s an Orb? See here.. www.orb360.co.uk.
For those who have asked for the technicalities behind this one;
This was taken with a Nikon D200 and Nikon 10.5mm f2.8 DX Fish Eye lens, using aperture priority with manual exposure compensation of +1 1/3 stops. This did leave the sky – top right – a bit burned out, but I was able to recover the highlights .
The additional post processing in Lightroom was essentially;
- Recovery and fill boosted to around 50 (This gives the slight HDR look)
- Boosted Vibrance and Clarity to 100% while bringing the overall saturation down to around -50
- Gave the blacks a nudge upwards and added a strong tone curve.
- Finally played around with the individual saturation sliders to boost the main colours in the image. E.g. Blue / Purple / Magenta were all pushed to 100% – plus the others to varying degrees.
- Sharpened in Photoshop.
Not rocket science, but a lot of trial and error. Once you’ve found a look you like you can always save as a preset, but what works well for one image won’t always work well with another – always worth tweaking.