On Apr 24, 2013, at 9:18 PM, Rick Womer wrote: > Well, hell, Walt; I don't know what all the fussing is about. It's a great > portrait of a despairing guy. > > Yeah, there's the bright thing near his left shoulder, but so what? It's > waaaay out of focus, and the face is so well captured that the bright thing > didn't distract me at all. In fact, I had to go back to the photo to see > what people were bitchin' about. > > Strong work! > > Cheers, > > Rick > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > I tend to agree with Rick on this - the big blob isn't all that bad given the strength of the main subject. My problem when I first saw the image was that I didn't know that the blob is a jukebox, and so it was more distracting than it might have been - I puzzled over the source of the blob rather than looking at Glen.
Some suggested burning in the area of the jukebox, still others suggested that it might not work given the blown highlights. As a less-than-expert LR technician myself, I would probably take a more brute force approach. At least on my screen most of the background looks uniformly black. I would use the clone tool, grabbing large chunks of that black background and covering over the juke box and the light above Glen's head. Leaving you with just Glen against a mostly black background, as though you had done a studio shot with a black backdrop. It may or may not work, but it is worth spending an hour playing with it because a) you might get a drastically improved portrait, and b) you'll have gained an hour's practice in using one of the tools. stan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Walt <[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 5:45 PM > Subject: PESO: Glenn > > Here's another one of my workplace shots, this one of a daily customer. > > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8678146012/ > <http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8678146012/> > K-5, FA 50/1.4, ISO 6400, 1/60 > > Glenn was as much a preening dandy as you could imagine just a few years > ago. Since then, his longtime live-in girlfriend left him and he's > thrown in the towel over the past couple of years. I thought this shot > captured the grimness of his descent. > > Comments and suggestions appreciated. > > Thanks! > > -- Walt > > P/S: The K-5 is still impressing the hell out of me in low light. > -- 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.
