Hebe 1 and Hebe 2 by weesel

Photography • Atmosphere/Mood • posted on Jun 21, 2004

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A quiet evening this past April. No breeze and dusk just fell. I noticed the reflections and had to try to catch this while it lasted. usual postwork techniques did little to enhance the image. Made a right proper mess more often than not. Still not totally happy with the overall effect. Any advice out there? Enjoy; thanks for viewing.

Comments (3)

emiliabertolli

7:00PM | Mon, 21 June 2004

hello weesel! maybe you could manipulate a little bit more the image, bringing the second statue closer to the first and cutting out the tree. I dont know if you add this noise to the picture, I prefer clear pics. Anyway, the image and the meaning it can carry within is great, and this meaning can be clearly observed in your pic, the way it is now! Congrats!

cynlee

9:34PM | Mon, 21 June 2004

i think you did well in covering the noise... one thing you can do is copy the image, darken the contrast so the blacks are black, maybe use the smoothing adjustment... now on the duplicate image, adjust for the figures & lighter areas, sharpen the figures... layer the darker one on top, reduce opacity so you can see the 2nd image underneath & erase back using a low setting, the figures, pool's edge, tree, reflection... bring the opacity on the darker image back up & blend... so, in effect, you are blending 2 duplicate images, one adjusted for the lighter areas & one adjusted for the darker areas... hope that makes sense :] or bracket your shots when you shoot, using a tripod, which can also be layered...

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weesel

6:18PM | Tue, 22 June 2004

That makes sense. Not sure how I'll do it, but thanks for the pointer. Now I know what to research. BTW: I think the noise is my use of the stone texture -- forgot I did that. I'll try again, w/o it for comparison.