Forum: Photography


Subject: Constructive Critique for 3_15_07

bclaytonphoto opened this issue on Mar 14, 2007 ยท 20 posts


TwoPynts posted Thu, 15 March 2007 at 7:23 AM

Very quick from me. I agree with most of what Pat mentioned. I'm not a fan of the square crop, but it seem necessary here. I levt a bit more breathing room around their heads and got rid of distractions. I also blurred and darkened it up a bit more there. If I had more time, I would get rid of that thing behind his hat too, but it isn't a deal breaker. I go through several passses of processing with mostly transparent layers over the main image, and in each of these I heavily sharpened the image because the guy on the left's blurry eye bothered me. These layers included a shadow/hightlight layer, a multiply layer, and a "velvia" layer to give the colors more punch. As you can see, some detail that looked lost in the highlights came back. Nice one Bruce. I'd like to suggest posting a small version of the full image here in the future as a referrence so people can compare.

Kort Kramer - Kramer Kreations