What other people made this week

Studio portrait under a single soft box, high on the right. The brief asked for window light, so the shadow side turned warm and the catchlight moved. Same face, same jacket, same crop.

The shop had tungsten over the counter and daylight from the window, which made the crema look grey. One warm key on the left and a dark fill behind fixed it without touching the cup.

A market crossing at two in the afternoon, with about forty people in frame. The subject came out clean, the sweep sits behind them, and the stolen light on the shoulder was kept.

Backlit portrait in a field, already close to the look. The grade pushed the greens towards olive and added a soft halation around the flowers, which is what the film would have done.

Cropped from a long lens frame that was never sharp to begin with. At 4x the fur keeps its direction and the whiskers keep their edges, which is the part most upscalers smear.

A cold, clear landscape shot in flat overcast. The result keeps the composition and the scale of the cliffs, and only changes the medium, with wet edges where the water meets the rock.

A print that had been in an album for twenty years, scanned at 600 dpi with the colour already gone. The restore kept the softness of the original lens and did not invent detail that was never in the file.

The brief was a character study for a stop-motion pitch. The clay preset flattens the highlights, rounds the folds in the blanket and leaves the eyes glossy, which is the one thing clay keeps.

Black and white desk shot from a magazine archive. Colour was added in layers, paper first, then wood, then the mug, so nothing turned the same shade of beige.

A warm sunset frame that was too dark to print. The shadows were lifted, the haze pulled back a little, and the warmth kept, so the scarf still carries the picture.

Shot straight into the light, so the sky went white. The grade recovered the teal in the water and put a rim on the canoe, with grain added last so it does not look digital.

A macro shot on a cluttered board. The subject was lifted off the background and enlarged three times, so it can sit on a packaging proof at 300 dpi.