Lean on me

As I said last week, I wanted to start posting more candids than I have been recently, so here is this week’s installment.  I saw this couple weeks back down at the campus of the University of Pittsburgh when my dad and I were out shooting.  He was framing a shot of the Cathedral of Learning from the outside when I saw these two relaxing on a bench.  Originally they were sitting like two people normally sit on a bench, side by side, but after a few minutes, when I turned back around, they were posed like this.  I moved around to get to a little bit of a better angle and snapped away.

On to the process.  Single RAW opened in Camera RAW.  I lowered the Saturation to -70 and increased Vibrance to 15.  Lowered Contrast to -25 and increased Clarity just a pinch to 10.  Opened in PhotoTools and applied a slight Omaha Beach filter (10) and Golden Hour Enhancer (20) to give it a glow.  In Color Efex I added just a Tonal Contrast filter to only the highlights and a bit more desaturation to get the final result.

Thanks for stopping by everyone.  See you all tomorrow.