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09/21/2010 05:40:27 AM · #26 |
Originally posted by bohemka:
When are you going to do a tutorial on this? PS for me is curves and levels. I need to really learn this skill. |
Well, seeing as how a skill like this is in such high demand (meaning that people who demand it are high), my workshops are booked solid for the next 8 years (I only have one every 8 years). Not only that, it is a skill that requires a very rare, malformed genetic brain anomaly that exists only in my head and those of a certain group of Mongolian monks. ...er, Monkeys. Mongolian monkeys. Are you a Mongolian monkey? |
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09/21/2010 07:03:24 AM · #27 |
| I'm hairy and I love beer, so I'm a bit of a cross between a monk and a monkee, but I have no claim to anything Mongolian. I can wait the eight years. Monks with beer have all the time in the world. |
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09/21/2010 09:29:22 AM · #28 |
Originally posted by davidw:
I can't top that...I removed one of the islands (I can't help it, content aware fill is the greatest thing since sliced bread), and cropped. Then I applied topaz denoise, and topaz adjust with the smooth and flat setting to the sky and ocean, then again with the photo pop.
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I agree with removing the island. It was too much of a distraction in the foreground.
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09/21/2010 09:30:20 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
And my obligatory edit...
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You should do a blog of Godzilla edits that you do.
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09/21/2010 01:11:01 PM · #30 |
| Thanks for so many responses - I have just got home from work, and will sit down later and have a look at them all, and see what I can learn. I agree about the removal of the rocks improving the balance of the photo; I am never quite sure of the ethics of removing something as large - I have always veered towards a 'truth' sort of attitude, which I think has probably rather restricted me in my non-DPC photography, and maybe is unnecessary. I do, though, always feel somewhat cheated when a photo does well at one of the photographic alliance competitions and I then find the author (I've got to learn to use the competition circuit jargon, as I am a judge next year!)has actually made a composite photo. |
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09/21/2010 03:43:57 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by SaraR:
Thanks for so many responses - I have just got home from work, and will sit down later and have a look at them all, and see what I can learn. I agree about the removal of the rocks improving the balance of the photo; I am never quite sure of the ethics of removing something as large - I have always veered towards a 'truth' sort of attitude, which I think has probably rather restricted me in my non-DPC photography, and maybe is unnecessary. I do, though, always feel somewhat cheated when a photo does well at one of the photographic alliance competitions and I then find the author (I've got to learn to use the competition circuit jargon, as I am a judge next year!)has actually made a composite photo. |
IMO, unless you are shooting photojournalism, or rules specifically prohibit it, there is no reason to expect that what you see isn't modified. Some people do less, some do more (I tend toward less), but neither is right or wrong.
The end result is what really matters.
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