I don't know that cloning out the bright spots would be a good idea, Christine--you don't want it to look as though there is a black wall in the background. I think =taming= the bright spots, and perhaps bringing out a bit more of the texture in the foliage, would do the job.
I really like the shot. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Thu, 10/2/08, Christine Aguila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Christine Aguila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: PESO Garden Meditation > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 6:50 PM > Hi Brian, Frank, David, and Ken: Big thanks for the > feedback. I wanted to > clone out the bright spots, but I thought I'd toss the > pic out there to see > if there were any objections, which there were, so I'm > gonna deal with them. > Groovy! Thanks again. Much appreciated. Cheers, > Christine > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Walters" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 4:45 PM > Subject: Re: PESO Garden Meditation > > > > Very calming image! > > > > The bright spots on the background distract from the > main image - they > > could possibly be toned down a bit. > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Brian > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Brian Walters > > Western Sydney Australia > > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > > > > > > On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 08:45:54 -0500, "Christine > Aguila" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> In the same garden as the Santa picture :-). In > the spirit of full > >> disclosure, I did clone out street images at the > top of the frame, > >> buildings > >> and such. The black is a hedge; I just made the > hedge taller. The > >> street > >> stuff was so distracting, so I got rid of it. > >> > >> K10D DA * 50-135mm @ 80mm, ISO 800, 1/50 sec @ > f2.8. > >> > >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7938331 > >> > >> comments welcome > >> Cheers, Christine > >> > >> > >> > > -- > > > > > > -- > > http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service > should be > > > > > > -- > > 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. -- 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.
