On 4/26/2013 8:57 AM, Stan Halpin wrote:
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
Thank you, Stan. I'm slowly learning Lightroom -- very slowly, in fact.
It's so different from anything I've used in the past, I still haven't
really gotten the hang of navigating it.
I've gotten some very helpful suggestions, though, and I think I can
rescue the image with a little practice.
Thanks for the suggestions. I may make something out of it yet!
-- Walt
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