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| Posted by Robert: Wed Jun 29th, 2016 18:27 | 1st Post |
I now think I know why they call this hill Black Combe... Caught this a couple of weeks ago but thought I had deleted it when I re-formatted the cards for the Rockingham event. I don't think my attempts do it justice, it seemed more contrasty than this although I have bumped the contrast up somewhat. It was really dramatic. This is one I took a little earlier with Dave and his dog, Dave lives on the old Severn Barge in the background. Taken with D3 and Nikkor 18-35 f3.5-4.5. 
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| Posted by jk: Thu Jun 30th, 2016 03:46 | 2nd Post |
| Nice images Robert. Shame Dave had the plastic bag in hand.
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| Posted by Robert: Thu Jun 30th, 2016 04:49 | 3rd Post |
jk wrote:Nice images Robert. As I was processing the image I was uneasy about the plastic bag, previous attempts to remove suchlike have resulted in silly distractions in the image, so I decided to leave it. After all, 'thats Dave' but the plastic bag in itself is a distraction. I can easily clone some of the bag out where the dog is the background but re-constructing Dave's hand and leg is well beyond my ability. I may have a go at reducing the bag and turning it either less bright or clone in some other object... It was a spontaneous exposure, I couldn't really have asked Dave to dump the bag and walk past again! I was actually concentrating on the foreground and background and didn't really notice the bag at the time. I will have a play with it later... Perhaps add some sort of texture and remove the gaudy colour, I think Dave's left leg is behind the bag, that would be very difficult to construct, also it's getting away from the original. One thing taking out a telephone wire but re-constructing a leg is both difficult and outside the spirit of the game, in my opinion.
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| Posted by jk: Thu Jun 30th, 2016 08:02 | 4th Post |
| Try selecting the green of the bag and substitute for a dark brown.
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| Posted by Robert: Thu Jun 30th, 2016 11:05 | 5th Post |
| Yes, that might do it, perhaps a job for the Nik filters...
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| Posted by Robert: Thu Jun 30th, 2016 15:59 | 6th Post |
| Good old Ps! Selected the bag, Hue - Saturation adjusted the hue and saturation, slightly reduced the luminosity and here it is... Definitely an improvement, thanks JK. BTW, that is his skin colour, it's not due to my meddling with the image, and he isn't Indian either! Good old sunburn, living aboard a boat full time. 
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| Posted by jk: Thu Jun 30th, 2016 16:05 | 7th Post |
Better, how about a darker tone 
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| Posted by jk: Thu Jun 30th, 2016 16:06 | 8th Post |
| What is the bevel you are putting around your image? White inner 5px, outer 10px? Is it added with an Action? Please can you share if it is. Very nice look for here on this forum.
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| Posted by Robert: Thu Jun 30th, 2016 17:07 | 9th Post |
jk wrote:Better, how about a darker tone About as dark as I can because the whole bag is selected.  BTW Here is the exposure data.  It does look a bit less conspicuous. It was glaring before. 
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| Posted by Robert: Thu Jun 30th, 2016 17:17 | 10th Post |
jk wrote:What is the bevel you are putting around your image? No action, in Photoshop, I simply enlarge the canvas by 80pixels all round (40/side), cmd A, stroke 30, black, my new background is set to white always. Then I add my signature. The enlarge canvas depends on how much the original image is cropped. It's easy to create an action but the process is so easy I don't bother. Sometimes I get the adding 80 to the canvas size wrong but a simple undo fixes that then reach for the calculator...  You can vary the borders easily enough, sometimes when I have plenty of space I don't crop, then I don't enlarge the canvas either. That's another reason I don't bother with an action. I think a simple border enhances the image a lot, it provides a balance and makes it look more finished.
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| Posted by jk: Thu Jun 30th, 2016 17:30 | 11th Post |
| Yes I agree it makes the image look 'finished'.
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| Posted by Robert: Thu Jun 30th, 2016 17:44 | 12th Post |
| Some of Eric's borders are easier with actions, he adds shadows and sometimes transparency with or without blur, then there are the hugely effective frames where the subject is putting a leg or wheel out of the frame, they can involve a bit of work but are actually pretty easy really once you get the idea. The grey border here is a loose selection of the original as I made my screenshot. 
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| Posted by jk: Fri Jul 1st, 2016 05:51 | 13th Post |
| If anyone wants the Action of what Robert does in Photoshop. Unzip and put where Photoshop finds its actions. Attachment: Web Border.atn.zip (Downloaded 4 times)
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| Posted by Robert: Fri Jul 1st, 2016 06:22 | 14th Post |
jk wrote:If anyone wants the Action of what Robert does in Photoshop. Thanks JK, will give it a whirl. I tend to process every image separately, although I have to admit I have started to use Lightroom's 'Synchronise' function, especially for time lapse sequences, get one image right, then sync the rest, much easier when there can be 350 to 1,000 frames to process. I am still keen to do a long time lapse of weather, clouds forming from the hills and rain falling maybe even for 24 Hrs, which calls for human intervention because I don't see any way of allowing the camera to achieve the range of exposure needed to cope with night and day, on it's own.
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