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An edit of a recently posted photo

ohhh, this one's a toughie....my girlfriend shot with a Pentax K10D. Made 4 vitual copies and created a HDR file. Brought that back into Lightroom and created a low contrast Black and white. Brought that into Photoshopa and made a Duotone. Then dodge and burnt like crazy....back into lightroom for some touchups, and voila.

This is one of those images that will never be done. Still looking for my particular "style"...I'm getting close, but not close enough...

Just to clear up, I made 4 virtual copies in Lightroom, adustting exposure and fill light for each shot. Luckily this image was shot at and ISO of 100, so the noise was under control. Actually my first attempt at creating a "virtual HDR" instead of using 4 unique exposures. Came out pretty sweet if I may say so myself ;)

Me, my sad robot, and my hauntingly eerie shadow.

HDR shot from 4 exposures taken after midnight

Acoustic Guitar, I'm gonna make you a star
Get your picture all over the world
Acoustic guitar, you can have your own car
Just bring me back my girl

She always loved the sound of your strum
You made her think maybe I wasn't so dumb
She tends to faint at the sound of a drum
cause she's Folk, so play and maybe she'll come

Acoustic Guitar, How lovely you are
with your inlays of mother of pearl
Be a good guitar, And you can go far
Just bring me back my girl

She always said that you were the one
who could make her move her cute little bum
You understand where she's comming from
Which I obviously don't
Or she wouldn't be gone

Acoustic Guitar, If you think I play hard
Well you could have belonged to Steve Earle
Or Charo or GWAR, I could sell you tomorrow
So bring me back my girl
You better bring me back my girl.

--Acoustic Guitar by Stephen Merritt / The Magnetic Fields