On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:10:06 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:04:33 -0500, JohnH wrote:
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:28:17 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:
This is an example of what I was talking about the other day.
This is an uncorrected image:
http://www.swsports.org/images/PC219359.JPG
This is the corrected image:
http://www.swsports.org/images/Untitled14.jpg
This is uncropped and uncorrected:
http://www.swsports.org/images/PC219295.JPG
This is cropped and corrected:
http://www.swsports.org/images/Untitled11.jpg
In both the cropping helped. And in both your initial composition was as good as it
could have been given the time and circumstances.
The first one wasn't cropped - I only took out the wing.
I would have said you cropped out the wing. But, it's semantics.
When I use Photoshop Elements, and let it do the 'Auto Fix', I get results that look
'too' fixed, which is what the first seagull looks like. I usually have to go in and
reduce the amount of 'fixing' it does. I liked the original seagull, with the wing
out, better than the 'corrected' version. A 'little' brighter might have helped, but
the corrected version just seems too bright.
I don't work with Photoshop, but if it has a histogram evaluation,
download both and take a look.
On the second one, the cropping was great, but the 'correcting' washed out the bottom
two birds too much. I liked the 'shadow effect' in the first shot, without the
'enhanced' sky and overexposed water.
Ah, see I disagree. On my monitor, the original image is way too
bright and the "shadow" effect of the first is a distortion - take
another look.
I meant to say 'silhouette', not shadow. I see the pic 'PC219295' as being much
darker than 'Untitled11'. In the first, the sky is barely visible. In the second, the
enhancement has made the sky visible. I like the first one better, without the
enhancement.
Have you calibrated your monitor?
Only with my eyeballs, which were calibrated while attending the Engineer Officer
Advanced Course.
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John H
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