Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Welll................... everyone has different eyes, but I would crop it and color correct it like this: http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/tmp/Pb200160crvburnblur-richard.jpg Personally, I would not have gone for the blur look either. Just because I don't like to muck around too much w/ Photoshop. May be this is why I will stay w/ the M7 scanned slides for a little while longer :-) At 06:39 PM 11/20/2004, Peter Klein wrote: >Folks: I came up with what I think is a very nice shot today. It's taken >with my "Oleicus" E-1, so if that bothers, you don't look. I'd like a >reality check on how much editing to do on this one. > >Here's the original image, with some minor curve adjustments and burning >in, reduced for the Web. I like the warm cast--it was shot during the >"golden hour," so that stays: >http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/E1/temp/Pb200160crvburn.jpg > >Now, the first thing I noticed was that the almost-in-focus people in the >background take attention away from the foreground figures. The E-1 has >more depth of field than a comparable shot in a Leica. OK, so let's add >some artificial shallower DOF, in the form of some Gaussian blur through >a mask (the mask also blurred to make the blur fade in gradually at the >edges). Do you think this is OK, or am I going to far here? >http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/E1/temp/Pb200160crvburnblur.jpg > >Now, here's my first instinct on how I would crop the photo: >http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/E1/temp/Pb200160crvburnblurcrop1.jpg > >And here's a ruthless "eliminate all non-essentials" crop. Again, did I >go too far and lose needed context, or did I make the picture stronger? >http://users.2alpha.com/~pklein/E1/temp/Pb200160crvburnblurcrop2.jpg // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)