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Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

09/13/2003 01:30:48 AM · #1

I'm hopin' someone can help me make this pic more powerful. This is what I'd like to do....Make second reflection of Tiger go away, make window background darker (less contrast?), make primary reflection stronger, without degrading the image of the cat looking outside! Please play with it and LET ME KNOW HOW YOU DO WHAT YOU DO!!!

Thanks in advance

zerocusa

Canon EOS-1D Mark II

09/13/2003 01:34:38 AM · #2

A polarizer during capture would help a bit with the reflections.

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

09/13/2003 01:38:50 AM · #3

But wouldn't that remove both reflections??? I wanna highlight the primary one and remove the second one. This was takin' with the cat looking out of a double pane window.

Message edited by author 2003-09-13 01:39:09.

dsidwell

Canon EOS-5D

09/13/2003 01:43:44 AM · #4

First, I would clone out the second, unwanted reflection. Then I would select the colors or tones you want to change and either lighten them or darken them. You can select with the magic wand (in Photoshop) or the Replace Color tool. You can also go to Selective color and select the whites or neutrals or blacks and make them whiter or darker or whatever.

Good luck!

Message edited by author 2003-09-13 01:44:09.

rll07

Canon EOS-1D Mark II

09/13/2003 01:59:35 AM · #5

Cat

Message edited by author 2003-09-13 02:01:02.

Nikon MF Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8

09/13/2003 02:17:45 AM · #6

Originally posted by rll07:

Cat

Very impressive for the time involved (for me anyways). What did ya do?

rll07

Canon EOS-1D Mark II

09/13/2003 02:30:51 AM · #7

took about 10-15 mins i did what they said above, mostly
whitened the cat fur in photoshop with the levels and dropper tool
used magnetic lasso to highlight unwanted shadow and did an edit fill with the right color and then cloned out the shadow you didn't want in
forgot to sharpen it though and maybe the border is a bit much
also increased saturation a tad
did this in photoshop 7 was fun

I might like this one better.......
cat2

Message edited by author 2003-09-13 02:35:47.

Cheerz

Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro

09/13/2003 03:21:10 AM · #8

Hi Ron,

You can use a simple path to remove the unwanted portion. (Pen tool)

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Regards,
Eric Wong.

Imagineer

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

09/13/2003 05:35:07 AM · #9

Originally posted by toocool:

What do you think of this?

Cheerz

Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro

Nikon MF Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8

09/13/2003 11:18:01 AM · #10

Beautiful stuff..
Nice...

Sonifo

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

09/13/2003 11:23:32 AM · #11

Jon Locus, you did a fine job! Wonderful image toocool!

Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8 L IS

09/13/2003 11:35:49 AM · #12

Yes, nice job Jon. Am at work and not supposed to be on network so I'll comment more later! Oh, what all did you do???

Message edited by author 2003-09-13 11:36:09.

Gracious

09/13/2003 08:05:32 PM · #13

Too Cool, what a beauty your Tiger is. Nice capture. I like what Joh Lucas did to improve it.
I just love seeing such cooperation among our members. :-)

Here is a pic of my Suma.
Here are more pictures of petsfor those of you who enjoy pet pictures.

kirbic

Canon EOS R5

09/13/2003 08:06:13 PM · #14

Ron,
Here's my take on it...

Steps were:
1.) Quick mask over second reflection
2.) select/inverse
3.) adjust curves to darken second reflection
4.) clone out bright points reflected in window
5.) dodge to bring up brightness of first reflection
6.) burn along edge of reflection to tweak the appearance of the edge
7.) adjust curves to optimize brightness & contrast
8.) adjust curves to slightly warm image
9.) unsharp mask, 0.8px radius, 4 threshold, amount 50%

Total time, about 7-8 minutes.