Thanks, Jack and Bruce. I really appreciate your comments. I posted this image specifically to see what comment I might get, positive or negative, on the background. This is a grab shot, taken on a Manhattan street which the woman was approaching me. I caught a glimpse of her, and thought there could be a good image there. Because of heavy pedestrian traffic, I had only a split second to shoot, and I shot from the hip (actually the chest), because I didn't have time to even bring the camera up to my eye. The image out of camera was tilted, and there was a piece of someone else's head to the lower left and a patch of open sky and building reflections in the upper right corner that were both quite distracting, even to me. As a result, I couldn't straighten the image as much as I would have liked, and I had to crop it quite closely around the subject. Still, I had to clone out a bit o the head in the lower left and do a little burning in the lower left and a LOT of burning in the upper right in order to remove the distracting bit. I started three version that I discarded, before I got this one, which pleased me. I needed to see from others, however, whether the cropping, cloning and burning was too obvious and damaged the image.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Well chosen title with ideal background. > > Jack > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> > To: "PDML" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 8:41:17 PM > Subject: PESO: City Girl > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17801048 > Comments are invited. > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > -- > 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.
