Hi Shel,
Thanks for the effort. I think you did a better job on the arm than I
did. I'm going to work on it a bit more before I make a print. However,
I prefer the bright green. I know it's a distraction, but I think it's
an attractive distraction. How did you alter the color of the arm? I
just cloned areas from above the elbow but tried to preserve the shape
of the elbow.
Paul
On May 28, 2005, at 10:04 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Hi Paul ...
I did a Q&D adjustment on Green Girl's arm. I'll take a look at what
you
did. I toned down the intensity of the green by reducing saturation and
lightness, and slightly adjusted the hue. It may not be the best
choice of
green, but with the differences in monitors that abound, just a rough
idea
seemed sufficient. I think it puts the pic in better balance.
http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/paulpic.jpg
Shel
[Original Message]
From: Paul Stenquist
Thanks. Would love to see your version. I posted a new onewith
corrections to the arm and the boy's face.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3403038&size=lg
On May 28, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Hi Paul,
I pulled down the bright green by making a selection around the area
and
using Replace Color. It really seemed to help the balance of the pic
quite
a bit. I've completely changed my mind about this being a color pic.
I
brought the lightness and saturation down to -25 and moved the Hue up
to
about +5. I really enjoyed fiddling with this one - it's really a
nice
capture.
Shel
[Original Message]
From: Paul Stenquist
Hi Shel,
Thanks for commenting. To me, this screams out for color (to
paraphrase
Frank:-). From the hair color to the rose to the handbag, the color
is
what makes this interesting from my point of view. I'm not sure why
her
arm is a lighter, cooler color below the elbow. In the full-frame
version, all of her arm is revealed but it juts quite a ways out to
the
side and seemed to throw the frame off balance. It almost looked as
though she had been in the sun with long gloves on. I could have
warmed
the whole image a bit more, but I looked at it and found they were
getting a bit too rosy looking. The light was warm to begin.
