Retouching w/ Aperture…
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That’s nice lookin’ Kevin. When oyu get a chance you will have to give me the …For Dummies on how you put that new sky in the pic. There is also a quality to your last manipulation that I like, but do not know how to describe??? It is bright, but not too much, colors are vibrant, reminiscent of Chromasia. I realize I am making no sense, but if you think of what I am trying to say, please let me know. It is almost like there are mirrors illuminating the subject.
DustyNew Skies for Dummies???… The zen master to grasshopper answer.
MASK….
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[/align:frk3khui]I said that there are many ways to put in a new sky, really there are 100s of way to making a good mask and that is the key. Sometimes it is really easy like this one and sometimes you have to paint it or draw it from scratch. Make a separate file or work within the layers to make a mask that looks similar to this example.
Really mask are a key to retouch, spot color correction, many things. Once you figure out the mask game, the rest is up to your imagination, eye and experimentation.
To tell you how I got the color on this. Let’s say it was the poor mans HDR. I made the separate color corrected files using Aperture. (This was a learning game for me as well) Then combined them like HDR. I over did it on the face a little but I wanted his expression to show up – that is why you feel that he has a mirror on his face. When I left his face darker, the overall photo looked unfinished.
One thing I did notice. Aperture tended to make the files look over saturated. After combining all the layers and flattening it, I softened the saturation which brought back the more natural colors we were loosing. Like everything in this game… this photo was a learning tool for me as well.
Nice Golden Bone…. I do not think I ever said that.
Masks are the key then…noted. Thanks for the help, and the retouch you did of the little girl holding her first trout was awesome!
We found those carp last weekend in high, stained water. I cast to many of them, but they spooked and left behind only a puff of silt to let me know I had been picked off. The guy in the picture though, The Carp Whisperer it seems, has carp in the D/FW area dialed in. I’m trying, but they are harder to catch than any other fish I have sought. There is a book and a video by Barry Reynolds titled Carp. It is worth the money to someone who has not chased the “poor man’s bonefish” with any regularity.
Hopefully this weekend or next we will get out there again, and I will have some pics of big carp to post.
Dusty
Now time for me to ramble a little..
With a masters in art history, I try to figure out how this digital change is going to change art as a whole. I am not get all philosophical but the camera was the last major change in art as a whole. The camera turned the art worlds bucket upside down. Starting with expressionism to impressionism then the abstract world opened up and now anything and everything is art. The computer changes the photo game as a whole and which direction will it turn. We have to see and or find the potential in every shot we take.
The digital darkroom has very few bounds. A blow out over exposed shot is one of those boundaries but as we have seen – we can still make a great image out of it… You just have to ask how. If the detail is in there – go get it. I have been having fun with the photos on this forum because there are some
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