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This time I'm digging out one of the first photos I took with off-camera flash. Being a newbie at the time, I was still trying to figure out how to balance ambient light with artificial light, and I ended up overexposing this scene pretty badly. Rather than trying to restore some of that lost detail in the blown-out areas of his face and her shirt, I decided to go in a completely different direction.First step was to remove that annoying white bench in the background, which I felt was much too distracting. Next I desaturated the image, leaving only a hint of brownish sepia-tones. I also added a texture to give the image a really weathered & scratched appearance, and placed a border around the edges to round off the corners. Some vignetting (darkening of the edges) was added to draw the viewer's eye toward the center, and also to emulate the look of vintage photographs. Lastly, I "painted in" some lens blur to certain parts of the photo in order to complete the transformation.
Do you like the end result with all of its adjustments and effects, or do think I should have stuck with fixing the exposure in the original photo and kept things simple and straightforward?
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