On 7/21/07, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really like the tight head shot. It's a good candidate for a B&W > conversion, although i do also like it in colour: > > <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/charlie_2_DSvBW.jpg> > (I hope you don't mind.) > > My only gripe is the obvious line of the background mask. My PS tip, > when you've finished drawing a mask, go to Select>Feather and enter a > number of around 10 pixels (To start with, you could have to undo the > feather command and try again until it looks right). This will help > smooth out the edge of the mask. > > Cheers, > > Dave
Yikes! I didn't notice that "obvious line" in my haste to get this posted. Like everyone else, I like the first one as well. Dave, I like your conversion. Learning to do a good b&w conversion is a priority now. I've softened that horrible edge around Charlie: http://tinyurl.com/2xmfns Noticeably better? Bruce, I didn't really "choose" the tight framing. Both shots are full-frame. I just chose to shoot it that way - at the time it's what worked. Or, should I say, I shot about 6 or 10 of him, and that one (which was just sort of "fooling around") looked strongest to me when I was going through them. It really seemed to reflect Charlie's personality. Thanks to everyone else who commented. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
