Keep this shot in mind and the next time move a couple of feet to your
left so the jukebox is hidden behind your victim's... ahem, I mean your
subject's ... head.
From: Walt
Thanks, Bruce.
I went back and started from scratch in Lightroom, and it's pretty
apparent that the jukebox lights are blown out.
I don't think I'll be able to salvage the shot unless I go to a
vertical crop and just lop off the blown out section, but it's just
not as good an image in that orientation.
And, sadly, I completely lack the Photoshop skills to fix it.
Ah, well -- what coulda been.
-- Walt
On 4/24/2013 7:12 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
I agree with Frank that the jukebox is competing too successfully with
your subject.
The Lightroom adjustment brush can be used very nicely to alter the
exposure of stuff, but I would caution you about something that I
suspect exists here: blown out areas. Blown out areas are where the
pixels have been clipped to full-white by the sensor (because they
were too bright to be represented at that exposure setting). If you
attempt to reduce the exposure of a blown out area, it will simply
turn into an ugly featureless grey area, like a grey stain on the
image.
Luckily you are converting to B&W so the result won't look as bad as
it does in colour, but it may still look rather bogus, lacking grain
for instance. In that case to do a good job you'd need to pull your
image into Photoshop and use the healing or clone brush over the
object to give it some texture and body. Then it could be darkened and
still look real.
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:55 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com
<knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote:
That's a great photo!
Like the way the jukebox in the background mirrors his head position, but I
might burn it just a little bit.
None the less this is an amazing portrait.
Cheers,
frank
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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!
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