Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks to both of you for the suggestions. It was my fault not to locate a better background - to tell the truth I was in a bit of a hurry to get out of there. I do need to bring out detail in the rooster. I did punch up the contrast, but that's the way I saw the image - sort of gritty. It is a scan from a Kodachrome 25 converted to b&w in Nik Silver Efex2. Actually, now that I think of it, the best solution is just to mask the background and put him in front of a stone wall or similar. Back to the drawing board once more. Ken On 6/29/2011 10:27 PM, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > That's the problem with grab shots, no lighting control. > If the guy was accommodating, as it appears he was, you could of walked > him over to a better location, within a 20-30 foot radius. > I pulled it off the page and ran it through PS. While there are a few > tweezes that can be can done, it looked essentially the same. The flare on > the shoulder was easy to take care of. But it's all those areas in the > background that are really tedious to deal with. Also, the chicken is too > flat. > Then there's always the old standby, when in doubt, flash fill. > Scene fidelity tests, as a rule of thumb, should always be done prior to > any shooting, per specific location. It doesn't matter if it's an > auditorium, or a beach scape (which I dealt with over the past 24 hours). > The custom space, sometimes marked C on a wheel, should be used to save > key settings for lighting situation you're already familiar with. > On paper, Mark, I would of printed it with a 3 filter, and then burned the > face slightly with the #5, to separate the values. > S.d. > > > On Jun 29, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> I think that there is no information in that area what so ever and you are >> right drying to darken it would make it worse. Though I'd lower the >> contrast >> of the entire pic by quite a bit and that might help a bit. >> Some Photoshop major players would experiment with "cloning" in detail >> from >> the pattern of the jacket. I'm sure if it came to that that could be done. >> The image really to me looks way jacked up in contrast like it could have >> been printed on 3 but you've printed it on Brovira 6. >> >> It looks like a scan from print. Can you find the neg and give it a go >> from >> that? >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> Cars: http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb >> >> >> >> >>> From: Ken Carney<kcarney1 at cox.net> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:02:38 -0500 >>> To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: [Leica] Photoshop guru needed >>> >>> LUG: >>> >>> Here is an image I would like to print, but there is a flaw. There is a >>> flare on the right shoulder of the dude holding the fighting chicken. I >>> would like to get rid of it, but so far nothing has worked. Perhaps >>> nothing will work since there is no detail at all there. I remember >>> Ansel Adam's photo of the Pioneer Woman, where he regretted the blown >>> out area on her shoulder, but concluded any fix would just worsen it. >>> Of course, Ansel did not have PS for better or for worse. Thanks very >>> much for any suggestions. >>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/Haiti+fighting+cocksBW2.jpg.html >>> >>> Ken >>> (I took this with the fabled Summicron f/2 - how come there is something >>> less than perfect?) >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >