Help to remove flash in a mirror please.
Nov 3, 2012 18:41:37 #
Can someone tell me how to, or actually remove the flash in these pics if it is possible. tia.
Nov 3, 2012 22:44:40 #
Very difficult, I don't think that it can be done good enough that the outcome would be satisfactory. After removing the light you would have to try and recolor the skin tones and everything to make the photo half way presentable.
Nov 3, 2012 23:18:22 #
The flash destroyed the skin tones on the person on the left. I used various techniques to try to get rid of the flash and bring skin tones back. Cloning, screening, multiplying, selective sharpening, all in Cs5.
Nov 4, 2012 00:21:13 #
you almost have to draw everything back in, messed around as long as I wanted to, if it was my own picture probably would have put another hour into it, better but not GREAT
Nov 4, 2012 00:36:25 #
I noticed that I had made the shadow beard a little too dark in the first one, so here it is again!
Nov 4, 2012 04:54:50 #
Thanks very much guys, much appreciated work.
I promise I will never make the mistake again. ;-)
The guy near the flash has been a waiter at our favourite restaurant for about 6 years and this week he is returning to England to live.
Once again, thank you very much for your help. :thumbup: :thumbup:
I promise I will never make the mistake again. ;-)
The guy near the flash has been a waiter at our favourite restaurant for about 6 years and this week he is returning to England to live.
Once again, thank you very much for your help. :thumbup: :thumbup:
Nov 4, 2012 09:58:49 #
Since this was a digital photo the mirror reflection should have been apparent in your LCD view finder after the shot.
Seeing this, it would have behooved you to reshoot the photo working to eliminate this glare.
Easiest solution would have been to shoot from a lower angle. Or if possible, standing on a chair from a much higher angle.
Too many times a photo is shot at normal eye height, since it's too easy and too natural to shoot that way, but it doesn't always create the best photo.
It's the difference between taking a photo and making a photo.
I believe you may have learned a valuable lesson here, and appreciate good folks who edited a difficult photo to make it presentable.
Seeing this, it would have behooved you to reshoot the photo working to eliminate this glare.
Easiest solution would have been to shoot from a lower angle. Or if possible, standing on a chair from a much higher angle.
Too many times a photo is shot at normal eye height, since it's too easy and too natural to shoot that way, but it doesn't always create the best photo.
It's the difference between taking a photo and making a photo.
I believe you may have learned a valuable lesson here, and appreciate good folks who edited a difficult photo to make it presentable.
Nov 4, 2012 10:23:01 #
Totally agree, but it was a snatched shot done with the viewfinder and a bit difficult to stand on a chair in the middle of a restaurant, and I can`t thank the people that helped enough.
behooved ? a word I have never heard before.
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behooved ? a word I have never heard before.
raynardo wrote:
Since this was a digital photo the mirror reflecti... (show quote)
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Nov 4, 2012 10:26:35 #
And you're very welcome, I enjoyed the challenge, love trying to fix things in photoshop!!
Nov 4, 2012 10:29:34 #
Georgiann wrote:
And you're very welcome, I enjoyed the challenge, love trying to fix things in photoshop!!
You may rue the day you said this,
:-D but hopefully not. :wink:
Nov 5, 2012 08:02:04 #
When shooting with a reflective surface in the background, move slightly to one side and shoot at an angle. Remember, light bounces like a basketball. If you bounce a ball on the floor at a 45 degree angle it bounces off the floor at that same angle. So if you standing dead in front of your subject, the light is going to bounce directly back into the view of the camera. If you stand at a slight angle from your subject, the light off the shiny surface in the background will bounce off to the side and miss the lens. Same principle applies when you have a window in the background.
Very difficult to remove this problem with PP.
Very difficult to remove this problem with PP.
Nov 5, 2012 08:15:07 #
Yeah i can see that looking at the photo, if I had been 1/2 mtr to the right it would of been ok. ;-)
nikon_jon wrote:
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