Hello Shel, Thanks for the tips - I'll take a stab at this and see if I can improve it along the lines you and others have suggested. I appreciate your looking and ideas.
-- Bruce Thursday, June 15, 2006, 11:08:16 AM, you wrote: SB> Hi Bruce ... SB> First, it's a great capture - the look on the pitcher's face is great. SB> However, this one loses impact in the details. The slight tilt to the SB> fence can easily be corrected as Paul suggests, and I think it would help SB> the presentation. A little softer OOF area in the background would also SB> help, as would bringing down the brightest area on the trousers and the SB> pitcher's arm. My biggest complaint is that the pic looks washed out - SB> lack of contrast. That's easily corrected, but I'd not necessarily adjust SB> the contrast throughout the frame - work on the main subject a bit so he'll SB> pop a little more. Then you'll have a "big league" image <LOL> Here's a SB> Q&D touchup I just fiddled with a bit. SB> http://home.earthlink.net/~ebay-pics/giants_0112_stdadj.jpg SB> Shel >> [Original Message] >> From: Bruce Dayton >> Little league pitching. >> http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/giants_0112.htm >> >> Comments welcome >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net