I am posting a series of photographs from China, of wooden sculptures. These magnificent pieces of work are usually made from pieces of local wood which would otherwise go to scrap, or be burned for cooking, such as roots and broken limbs.

THis image really bothers me. I could find no way to get a good angle in this tea store in order to get the glare off the glass case. It is too good for the cutting room floor, but not good enough for my gallery. So, I thought to post it here to see if there might be some suggestions on how to salvage it.

This image has been played with in photoshop, but if anyone else would like to try their hand at it, I can post the original image, untouched.

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 Here the original

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Hey Joe,

Those sculptures are really something. 

If you can go back to this location, you may want to try attaching a circular polarizing filter, which can be used to reduce glare from glass/water in certain situations.

The below links show video of the results.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z11qT_DGyXY 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mczPWuA_FCU 

Je

WEBSITE - www.jcpowellphotography.com

 

FACEBOOK PAGE - https://www.facebook.com/JCPowellPhotography

It can be done in postwork, however you would need to spend a disproportionate amount of time cloning, masking and generally playing around - especially if you dont want people to realise it has been postworked so severely.  The best postwork is the one where no-one realises it happened...

"In every colour, there's the light.
In every stone sleeps a crystal.
Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:
Man is the dream of the Dolphin"

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Yeah, I tried post work and its like working from a laptop, unless it is and Alienware, is like... well, forget it. Even with a high end wireless keyboard and mouse staring into this itty bitty screen... I just finished 4 hours post work on one and it still doesn't look right.

JC, um... thanks for the hint, but I haven't a clue what to do. I have a Canon Powershot SR 3 with converter lenses for wide angle, and telephoto. I had to take it off so I could use the flash, I did not buy the sideways flash add-on SOB to get around the shadow cast by the adapter hood....

Alas, I guess I need to graduate to a new camera. 

Um, we can;t get face book or U-Tube here in China.

@nshaala: it is good seeing you again.

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Attached Link: http://www.lensmateonline.com/newsite/S2.html

Joe,

There are 3rd party lens adaptors for the Powershot S3 that enable you to use filters.

Checkout Lensmate at the link provided.

Joe

WEBSITE - www.jcpowellphotography.com

 

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Thanks for the info. On the page it states:

"6. Does the adapter itself create a flash shadow?
Not under normal circumstances, but when the flash is used in very close range at the wide angle setting - less than 3' with the 58mm adapter (either the Lensmate 58mm or Canon LA-DC58E, they're dimensionally identical), and less than 1' with the 52mm adapter, a small amount of flash shadow from the edge of the adapter can be seen."

I should take the time to do some measurements. I sit better than ten feet from a wall, and shoot using the wide angle lens, and loose a third of my image to shadow. They say their adapter is identical to the one I got from Canon, only it is aluminum.

This Powershot S3 IS has given me five good years of service, so it is time to graduate up to a more professional model now that I understand most of the basics.

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