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Apr 24, 2015 10:28:25 #
I posted image #1 in the gallery a couple of days ago and have found that I really like the image and the pose. I am considering printing the image on gatorboard and have cropped it a bit at the bottom and attempted to clone much of the debris I found distracting...I would enjoy your thoughts and suggestions regarding the result in image #2...thanks so much...
Apr 24, 2015 10:38:56 #
hb3 wrote:
I posted image #1 in the gallery a couple of days ago and have found that I really like the image and the pose. I am considering printing the image on gatorboard and have cropped it a bit at the bottom and attempted to clone much of the debris I found distracting...I would enjoy your thoughts and suggestions regarding the result in image #2...thanks so much...I am thinking I cropped a bit too much at the bottom?
In my opinion, #2 is just right. In #1, leaf was distracting. Now, squirrel is nicely off-center. Enough room on the right for his gazing. Well-done!
Apr 24, 2015 10:47:28 #
ediesaul wrote:
In my opinion, #2 is just right. In #1, leaf was distracting. Now, squirrel is nicely off-center. Enough room on the right for his gazing. Well-done!
Thanks you...appreciate the feedback... :thumbup:
Apr 24, 2015 10:54:16 #
IMHO cropping is good but cloning out stone and leaf is not. I would recomend to darken leaf to make it less distracting.
hb3 wrote:
I posted image #1 in the gallery a couple of days ago and have found that I really like the image and the pose. I am considering printing the image on gatorboard and have cropped it a bit at the bottom and attempted to clone much of the debris I found distracting...I would enjoy your thoughts and suggestions regarding the result in image #2...thanks so much...
Apr 24, 2015 11:17:34 #
MMC wrote:
IMHO cropping is good but cloning out stone and leaf is not. I would recomend to darken leaf to make it less distracting.
Thanks MMC...will give that "go" and repost result :thumbup:
Apr 24, 2015 11:20:36 #
If the signs of cloning bother you, you can always clone over the clones. And as MMC said, darkening was always a possibility. And while we're on the subject, the background could do with just a touch of darkening and maybe desaturating and softening, and if you could somehow remove the brightest bits of it (darken or clone), it would leave more focus on the squirrel. In particular, there's a bright leaf at the squirrel's elbow that could do with toning down a bit. If it was mine I'd probably want to make the squirrel a bit less shadowed, but that's possibly just a personal preference.
Apr 24, 2015 11:29:10 #
hb3 wrote:
Thanks MMC...will give that "go" and repost result :thumbup:
The image below has the leaf back in as suggested by MMC....tried to give the leaf a bit of texture as well
Apr 24, 2015 11:58:51 #
hb3 wrote:
The image below has the leaf back in as suggested by MMC....tried to give the leaf a bit of texture as well
May I ask what the foreground leaf adds to the photo of a portrait of a squirrel? Can't we assume that there are leaves in the brown spaces in the green grasses? And who cares?
Apr 24, 2015 13:14:45 #
I like it.
hb3 wrote:
The image below has the leaf back in as suggested by MMC....tried to give the leaf a bit of texture as well
Apr 24, 2015 13:21:16 #
I am not sure that this adds something but it is not subtract eather. In previous version cloning out leaf was not accurate and it is not easy to make it better.
ediesaul wrote:
May I ask what the foreground leaf adds to the photo of a portrait of a squirrel? Can't we assume that there are leaves in the brown spaces in the green grasses? And who cares?
Apr 24, 2015 20:26:12 #
hb3 wrote:
The image below has the leaf back in as suggested by MMC....tried to give the leaf a bit of texture as well
I definitely didn't like the bright leaf!
I like the image equally either with the leaf darkened or the leaf absent.
Dave
Apr 24, 2015 21:35:29 #
I believe I would have cloned out the leaf, but then rather than spending time rebuilding the rock, I would have cloned in some of that tall grass to cover up the leaf area and the corner of the rock. I like it, and of the 2 that you posted I like #2 better.
Apr 25, 2015 06:55:27 #
hb3 wrote:
I posted image #1 in the gallery a couple of days ago and have found that I really like the image and the pose. I am considering printing the image on gatorboard and have cropped it a bit at the bottom and attempted to clone much of the debris I found distracting...I would enjoy your thoughts and suggestions regarding the result in image #2...thanks so much...
I like this cropped version a lot, but agree with R.G. on the other improvements that would help. But overall this is a very nice image and I like it.
Apr 25, 2015 08:31:21 #
Hello hb3! I thought your original second image was superb! A top-shelf effort! That's my vote and tho I may be squirrely I'm stickin' to it.
Apr 25, 2015 08:40:24 #
The squirrel is easily the center of attention in your image (as it should be). Since you specifically mentioned cloning out the leaf, it became very easy to find the traces of your editing. I'm not sure how immediately obvious it would have been if the subject had not been brought up. I do like CajonPhotog's suggestion of cloning grass in to partially cover the lower portion of rock (and thus the traces of your original cloning). Grass has much more random texture and is easier to blend in.
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