Does appear sort'a bland. Guess I'm agreeing with you on this. Was thinking it needed more contrast and a nudge of sharpening. Like the placement of the leaning lady, BTW.
Jack --- On Sat, 8/22/09, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > From: P. J. Alling <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO -- Just Hangin' Out. > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 7:37 PM > The original concept, (yes I actually > do plan these shots a bit ahead of time), was to leave the > figure in silhouette, but I wanted to get some detail in the > stone retaining wall/dock. When I lightened up the > wall, I discovered that the young woman made for a nice > bright focal point. So I decided to bring out some > detail and color in her, which lead to the dock becoming too > bright, so I adjusted contrast with curves. Now she > was too dark again. I made a new curves adjustment, the > girls figure is back the dock is OK but now the islands and > boats are getting washed out. Sheesh, this was just > supposed to be a throwaway, PESO. So to > make a long story short this became a major project. > Multiple adjustment layers and still I can see people not > liking it. But I spent the entire early evening > working on it so I'm going to post it anyway. > > http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20justhanginout.html > > Equipment: Pentax K20D w/smc Pentax F 70-210mm > f4.0~5.6 > > > -- > > The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with > either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with > gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he > might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is > not a free man any more than a dog. > > --G. K. Chesterton > > > -- > 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.
