McFade Edit of Dave Goodman’s “Chris” Shot

Here’s a shot by Dave Goodman, who came on our Brass Workshop in the Lyric. It’s a shot of Chris playing Trombone on the stairs up to the projector room.

For me, the main thing here was the shadow and brick textures, so all the emphasis was dragged in that direction, leaving chris himself very shadowy.

1. Original Image
2. Tone and clarity added – used a GRAD effect to alter the texture on the left side of the shot
3. Subtle change of contrast/clarity on LHS brickwork
4. Cooled the dark tones to give more “cold” look
5. Crop and slight vignette
6. Selective brush tweakes