Thank you, Rick. I purposely darkened her upper legs for the composition, while attempting to avoid a featureless mass. The result that you see will, unfortunately, depend on your monitor's response curve. Were I to print this I imagine I'd have to make several attempts until I got the balance just right.
Ideally I'd have been dealing with a different pose and I'd make her upper legs go entirely into silhouette, making it more likely to reproduce on any output device. Should I ever get better at this I'll think of that when I'm _taking_ the shots rather than when I'm reviewing them later in Lightroom! Fine suggestion on selective colour. However, when I have tried that in the past I haven't been very happy with the result. I'm not generally a fan of selective colour, grouping it with HDR, white vignettes and faux frames under the category: Art or Artifice? But I was sad to see the red go; if any shot could benefit from selective colour this is a likely candidate. On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Rick Womer <rwomer1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Love the quote, and that's a very clever composition. One might brighten the > legs just a touch so that they aren't one dark mass up toward the knees. > Also, what if one preserved the color just in the shoes and the apple? > > Cheers, > > Rick > > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> > To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List <PDML@pdml.net> > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 9:48 PM > Subject: PESO Woman standing in heels > > "I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and > it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't > like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the > long winter nights." > -- Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep > > http://goo.gl/33KUm > > Comments welcome! > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
