 Janet L. Skinner |
What would you do with this photo?
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Kip T. Berger |
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Janet L. Skinner |
Wow Kip. That is great!! How did you do it?
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Kip T. Berger |
Just took image of a lady dancer, then adjusted the "highlights,midtones,&shadows" with the emphasis added to shadows to form the silohuette. Then Pasted into your image, sized and positioned it. I like your sunset the way it is...myself I wouldn't adjust the water's brightness. Think the darker tones help contrast with the color of the sunset. In the same concept, you could place whatever person, animal. or object into your scene. Just mask the area around the "image" you wish to use to the background of it is transparent. Then resize, adjust for shadows, then merge/flatten the image.
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John P. Sandstedt |
Photoshop can, sometimes, helps a photograph but, frankly, you need to consider the origianl first. In this instance, I have aproblem with the fact that there's no subject and no real sunset or sunrise. There's nothing jumpng at me. Kip added a silhouette but, it my view, the figure is too smal to anything but guide the viewer on perspective and the vastness of the scene you shot. I would rather have seen the silhouette closer to the foreground, if do-able with the darkness of the foreground. This would allow the scenic to be a backdrop lending intensity to the silhouetted figure. John
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Janet L. Skinner |
I appreciate your comment, John. This was dusk on a foggy day. What is do-able? Janet
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Kip T. Berger |
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John P. Sandstedt |
kip- And even larger. Make the figure fill the frame top to bottom, leaving a little space at her feet. If needed, crop a little left or right. This makes the lady the subject, of course, and no longer Janet's photo - except as background. But, the whole image is stronger by blending the two images. A really great collaboration. John
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Janet L. Skinner |
It is a great collaboration, thanks guys......
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Bob Cammarata |
A scenic,...in itself, is lacking without a point of interest. When composing sunrises, sunsets, vistas,...etc., something should be included in the foreground to give the viewer a focus,...something to associate with the surrounding view. Now-a-days, there's always the option to add something later, but you should consider this important element when composing the original scenic. Take a walk and observe what's going on in front of you. When you see something (or someone) interesting, place it (or them) in the foreground to augment what you've already discerned as photographic.
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