Activity for User 146 - Bob Benson - benson.bob@comcast.net

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8 Aug 18 Comment Hi Mark,
Only you could look at something so simple and make a picture work from it. Have you tried using Image>Distort, and moving the left "triangle" so it is pointing to the upper left corner?		 Aug 18th
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26 Aug 18 Comment Nicely done. After Belinda noticed the reflection? in the window, I am intrigued by this, and wonder what the context is. Is it some large painting inside? Aug 18th
26 Aug 18 Comment I think you should add some contrast, as it seems a little flat, so I tried that. I also darkened the edges and some of the bright stems. Not sure if it just because it is a jpeg, but the bird still seems soft to me, like it had been enlarged a lot. Aug 11th
26 Aug 18 Comment As you saw when driving past, there is a picture here. You suffer from a huge contrast range, with the overly bright background. Have you considered HDR with 3 exposures? (Maybe on a return visit?) The shady area lacks contrast, so I tried bumping that up, and applied even more highlight reductions.
But because the barn is in the middle, perhaps cropping the frame to reposition the barn might help too.		 Aug 10th
26 Aug 18 Reply It would seem that you only need to increase the selection of the windows by a few pixels to eliminate the problem. If it is not on a layer, redoing by using the expand command after the selection should do it. I would suggest increasing the contrast on the sky portion to make it fit better with the contrast inside. It looks like there were other rooms to explore? Aug 5th
26 Aug 18 Comment What a nice view to have so close to your house. The original has more of a "soft" feel than the adjusted, and your processed version is more "snappy", but that is okay, just a different look. (I am sure the smaller jpeg version here just accented the effect even more.) You might consider blending in the original's mid lake area just a little bit, as the post processing increased the textured lake ripples, making them stand out.
I would suggest cloning out the small white structure at the end of the fence, which I think would be an easy job. My eye keeps wanting to seek it out, and figure out what it is.
Do you have a chance to photograph the waterlilies when in bloom?		 Aug 4th
26 Aug 18 Comment What a great find. I like the starburst on the top. There seems to be a strong halo around the windows; did you replace the sky here, or is it jpeg artifacts I see? I wonder if you might tone down the bright window light on the left corner foreground slightly, so as not draw us away from the bride. Aug 4th
26 Aug 18 Comment I believe this should be an easy perspective correction; probably the problems you are having are do to the limitations of the software, which would not be the problem so much with Lightroom or Photoshop. In this case, I used Edit>Transform>Distort to correct it most of the way. (Perspective would have worked here too, but the Distort command allows individual adjustment on each side.) I also selected the boarded windows on top, and made them a little more saturated for impact.
I think you have a good potential "work in progress".		 Aug 4th
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