No problem. I was just thinking you may spend a lot of time to get something that still might not make you totally happy in the end. You're free to try of course. Photoshop is always a learning experience.
Tom C. >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: PESO - Yosemite Reflection #1 >Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:56:47 EDT > >In a message dated 10/29/2007 9:33:56 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Really, as happens to us all, the timing was wrong. To get a really good >shot one must luck out and be there at the right time or be willing to >come >back at the right time. > >All the PS'ing in the world won't make a shot like this as good as the >original taken at the right time in the right light would. > >Yosemite is stunning but this shot is not. It's just a matter of timing >and >light. Given that, the composition needs cleaned up around the edges. >The >small portions of trees and plant material encroaching should be cropped >because they detract from the scene. > > >Tom C. > >============== >I debated that, cloning out leaves and grass at bottom. > >Actually, some other times of day were much worse. Too much sun on the >water, or too much shadow. There may easily have been a better time of >day, but >the time I was there/choose was not the worst. > >However, to get really spectacular shots at Yosemite, I found out one must >know exactly where the good shooting spots are and what time of day to be >at >them. For instance, Half Dome, from the valley, is only good near sunset, >the >rest of the time it casts a shadow on itself and the inner surface is >barely >visible. So it isn't easy. I think one probably does better the more often >one goes. Familiarity helps a great deal. > >Thanks for looking and commenting, Tom. > >Marnie aka Doe > > > >--------------------------------------------- >Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. > > > > >************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
