Skegss: Music photography editing tutorial
Episode 2 of my new photography editing tutorial shows you how I edited a photo of Skegss.
Matthew James Oxlade
This is a photo I took of Skegss at Miami Shark Bar, and this article will show you my music photography editing process for getting the final result.
How I edited it
Step 1
I cropped the image to a square to focus the attention on the actual subject.
Step 2
Transformed the image into black and white
I decreased the highlights to limit the impact of the flash on the roof
I increased the shadows and the blacks to reduce some of the contrast
Increased the clarity to help make the champagne sit as individual droplets
Step 3
I used the masking tool to decrease the highlights on the roof only.
So the highlights the crowd aren’t reduced at the same time.
Step 4
I recovered the shadows along the midsection to bring back some of the details of the crowd.
I wanted it to be roughly a little less exposed than the champagne, which is the primary focus area of the image.
Step 5
I increased the exposure of the bottom half by around half a stop to balance the lower half to that of the top half.
Final image of Skegss
And that’s how I edited this photo of Skegss.
Want more?
Check out the same style of editing tutorial I did for a photo of Dune Rats.