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Date |
Image |
| 12 |
Sep 19 |
Reply |
I, too, often use Photoshop's healing brush CTRL-J instead of CTRL-S. Fewer obvious copycat stamps! |
Sep 26th |
| 12 |
Sep 19 |
Reply |
Did I remove the correct white area? Does anyone feel their eye now stays more on the planter? I am one of those people who think that light areas away from the main subject tend to be distractions. |
Sep 23rd |
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| 12 |
Sep 19 |
Reply |
What a great idea! I'm going to try it in the future with the addition of using a mask and brushing the effect onto just the light areas. |
Sep 23rd |
| 12 |
Sep 19 |
Reply |
The viewer can click on the small images we post as edited suggestions in order to see the image at its larger size. |
Sep 17th |
| 12 |
Sep 19 |
Comment |
Since I read your description before studying the image, I realized these fish weren't flying in the sky! I pretended I was lying on my back looking up, just like you. Great view! It makes for a unique image. Uniqueness is good! I don't know what that object is at the upper left, but I don't find it distracting. I would like to see the fish less dark, so in Photoshop I pushed the Shadows slider to the right quite a bit. That lightened the sky too much, so I made the blue and aqua colors darker. My image doesn't look as authentic as yours, however! |
Sep 17th |
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| 12 |
Sep 19 |
Comment |
I love what you've included in this image of looking down - from the person peering out the window to the bridge going out into the hazy ocean. It looks so realistic to me. I have been there, too, and this image makes me want to dig out those photos and look at them. I know I didn't shoot this view, and I wish I had! |
Sep 17th |
| 12 |
Sep 19 |
Comment |
This photo has a lot going for it in terms of uniqueness. Of course, looking down, so straight down! That one lone leaf. And the pavement with its colorations and patterns. I like the idea of such an unusual presentation of an otherwise normal planter. I'm a fan over dark vignetting, too, and it works well here. I don't see anything that makes me want to grab the clone tool and make disappear! Hmmm, did you place that leaf there before you went up to the 3rd floor? ha ha |
Sep 17th |
| 12 |
Sep 19 |
Comment |
I'm enjoying the gorgeous pink color and the shapes of the blossoms. One of my favorite trees. Since the flowers are underexposed, I'm guessing that the white sky behind has fooled the camera's light meter and closed up the aperture. A couple suggestions for this situation are either to use the flash or to use spot metering on a blossom.
When I tried to lighten a section of the blossoms to imitate a flash, I discovered you had put a vignette on your image. My other edit is meant to encourage you to get in closer. I think that having all those white spots of the sky are distracting. I know it is hard to find a tree that is so thick with blossoms that the sky doesn't show up as a bunch of distracting bright spots. Looking sideways or down will give those background spots a different and sometimes less distracting brightness and color.
I'm an advocate of post-editing removal of spots I find distracting. Sometimes with the clone tool. Sometimes with the burn tool. |
Sep 17th |
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| 12 |
Sep 19 |
Reply |
The topics for the assigned subject are listed on the group's home page which is found by clicking on the words About Group 12 at the top of this page. FYI, this month it is Looking Up or Down. |
Sep 1st |
4 comments - 5 replies for Group 12
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4 comments - 5 replies Total
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