I like the shot, Igor. Worth a little time to improve it. The simplest improvement would be to lighten the dancers and darken the crowd background. Try adding a subtle darkening vignette after that. That would be 60 seconds work in Lightroom with the adjustment brush and vignette effect.
The harder, not necessarily hugely better, improvement would be to cutout the dancers onto a new layer, use content aware fill to replace them on the old layer, use the lens blur filter with a gradient mask to simulate shallower DoF of the background, darken it, and lighten the dancers layer. Clone out the clock with content aware fill. About 30 minutes if the cutout requires using the pen tool. On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had just a very quick look over the photos taken during the weekend, > while LR was importing the photos and generating previews. > > This is one that caught my eye: > http://42graphy.org/misc/_IR03768.jpg > > I wish the background was a bit moreall blurred. > It was taken with the 77/1.8 at 1.8, ISO 3200, 1/60s, hand-held (as done > most of the time). > I am also thinking about cloning out the wall clock. > > Thoughts, comments, suggestions are welcome. > > Igor > > PS. Taken at the Austin Spring Tango Festival. > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
