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Posted: Wed Jun 29th, 2016 17:27
 
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I now think I know why they call this hill Black Combe...



Caught this a couple of weeks ago but thought I had deleted it when I re-formatted the cards for the Rockingham event.

I don't think my attempts do it justice, it seemed more contrasty than this although I have bumped the contrast up somewhat. It was really dramatic.

This is one I took a little earlier with Dave and his dog, Dave lives on the old Severn Barge in the background.

Taken with D3 and Nikkor 18-35 f3.5-4.5.



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Posted: Thu Jun 30th, 2016 02:46
 
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Nice images Robert.
Shame Dave had the plastic bag in hand.



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jk wrote:
Nice images Robert.
Shame Dave had the plastic bag in hand.


As I was processing the image I was uneasy about the plastic bag, previous attempts to remove suchlike have resulted in silly distractions in the image, so I decided to leave it. After all, 'thats Dave' but the plastic bag in itself is a distraction. I can easily clone some of the bag out where the dog is the background but re-constructing Dave's hand and leg is well beyond my ability.

I may have a go at reducing the bag and turning it either less bright or clone in some other object... It was a spontaneous exposure, I couldn't really have asked Dave to dump the bag and walk past again! I was actually concentrating on the foreground and background and didn't really notice the bag at the time.

I will have a play with it later... Perhaps add some sort of texture and remove the gaudy colour, I think Dave's left leg is behind the bag, that would be very difficult to construct, also it's getting away from the original. One thing taking out a telephone wire but re-constructing a leg is both difficult and outside the spirit of the game, in my opinion.



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Try selecting the green of the bag and substitute for a dark brown.



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Yes, that might do it, perhaps a job for the Nik filters...



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Good old Ps!

Selected the bag, Hue - Saturation adjusted the hue and saturation, slightly reduced the luminosity and here it is...

Definitely an improvement, thanks JK.

BTW, that is his skin colour, it's not due to my meddling with the image, and he isn't Indian either! Good old sunburn, living aboard a boat full time.



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Better, how about a darker tone ;-)



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What is the bevel you are putting around your image?
White inner 5px, outer 10px?

Is it added with an Action?

Please can you share if it is.
Very nice look for here on this forum.



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jk wrote:
Better, how about a darker tone ;-)

About as dark as I can because the whole bag is selected. o.O

BTW Here is the exposure data.



It does look a bit less conspicuous. It was glaring before.



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jk wrote:
What is the bevel you are putting around your image?
White inner 5px, outer 10px?

Is it added with an Action?

Please can you share if it is.
Very nice look for here on this forum.


No action, in Photoshop, I simply enlarge the canvas by 80pixels all round (40/side), cmd A, stroke 30, black, my new background is set to white always. Then I add my signature.

The enlarge canvas depends on how much the original image is cropped. It's easy to create an action but the process is so easy I don't bother. Sometimes I get the adding 80 to the canvas size wrong but a simple undo fixes that then reach for the calculator... :lol:

You can vary the borders easily enough, sometimes when I have plenty of space I don't crop, then I don't enlarge the canvas either. That's another reason I don't bother with an action.

I think a simple border enhances the image a lot, it provides a balance and makes it look more finished.



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