Around town
My flash wouldn't eliminate the shadow. How can I fix shots like this? I can't move the subject, but the light wasn't the best, either.
Here is another problem, backgrounds. It didn't matter what angle I took a photo of the geese, there was a problematic or busy background.
Niece's photo before trimming. Reflective glasses were a problem.
After trimming. I tightened up the photo, but feel like I lost some coloring and shadows from the leaves.
Here is the reason that I wanted to go out. There were reports of flooding. The metal railing is actually where people are able to stand to look out onto the Mississippi. Other than being a documenting photo, I'm not very creative on this one.
Pondering Cat, here are my comments: First, I like all of these photos. But I also agree that some of them need a little bit of photo editing.
ReplyDelete1. For the 1st photo: I suspect that the only thing you can do at this point is through photo editing. Maybe play around with contrast and brightness to try to darken the sunny part of the circle. Or, maybe there's a way to use the burn tool of a photo editor like PhotoShop to darken the light areas where the sun is shining. Otherwise, when you took the photo, I wonder if you had tried standing on the opposite side of the circle from where you were--- i.e., in the sun--- if you would have had less of the shadow cast across the circle. I like this photo and don't think this it's a bad shot at all, even with the shadow because you can still see alot of the details of the compass.
2. Photo #2: This is another nice shot, but I agree with you that the background is somewhat distracting, although pretty. Through a photo editing app such as PhotoShop or even Gimp (which is a freebie and alot like PhotoShop), you can blur out the background using a Gaussian blur filter. What you would need to do is work with layers where you create a layer of the bird statue using the lasso icon in PhotoShop or Gimp to trace around the statue. Then, you would copy that tracing, create a new layer, then do a paste and then click anywhere in the photo to anchor the new layer. Then, you work with the background only (i.e., deselect the new layer). Then, you go to the Filter menu and choose Gaussian blur and select how much you want to blur (I usually select an amount of at least 30, but 50 or more can work). With the background blurred, the viewer's focus will be more on the statue. And, the statue will stand out more.
3. Photos #3 & 4: I like both of these photos. I think both are nice. But, I think I favor #4 because the close cropping makes me focus more on your niece than on the stuff around her. I like the way you framed this picture--- nice. I'm not sure what you could do with the glare on her right eyeglasses lens. But, there may be something through photo editing that could reduce that. Maybe someone in the Yahoo Digital Photog group will know some tricks. Glasses are really a challenge. But, I think despite that, both of these are nice photos.
4. I like this last photo and it looks good to me. The only comment I have is that I may have taken this at a wider angle so the viewer would see more of the entire scene and have a reference as to how high the water is by being able to see more of the other nearby structures.
In sum, though, a nice set of photos.
Ruth
Wow, and thank you so much for these ideas. There are so many possibilities that I am unfamiliar with.
DeleteUsing Dodge and burn, you could either fill in the divided shadow or remove it.
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