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Tammy Espino 		 

How to get rid of cages around animals


 
 
I recently shot a photograph of a white tiger. Now it had a cage around it and when I uploaded I played around a little with Adobe 3.1 and had it in my kodak page. Now somehow I got rid of the cage without cloning or doing layers. I didn't pay attention so don't remember what I did! Anyone have any help as to how I might of gotten rid of the cage so easily?


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July 21, 2007

 
- Gregory LaGrange

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Gregory LaGrange's Gallery 		  Levels or curves. The lion it won't work.


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July 21, 2007

 

Mark Feldstein 		  Shoot it right and you won't need to fix it. The way to do this is to get as close to the fence as you possibly can. The best way is to place your lens directly up against the chain links in the fence itself. In the viewfinder, you'll notice the fence magically disappears. It's a depth of field issue.
Take it light.
Mark


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July 21, 2007

 
- Gregory LaGrange

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Gregory LaGrange's Gallery 		  Yes, that way too. Make sure the sun isn't shining on the fence. And a long focal length if you can't get up to the fence.
But, he asked about how he did it with photoshop. And you can do it with setting levels. But only with certain conditions when in the photo, the fence isn't defined at all, but shows up as a glared area.
But, the lion picture won't work either way because the lion is too close the fence, and I doubt there was enough room to back up with a long focal length. Plus the background being dark and the fence being light.


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July 21, 2007

 

Tammy Espino 		  Thanks all for your answers.


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July 21, 2007

 
- Gregory LaGrange

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Gregory LaGrange's Gallery 		  She asked. Sorry 'bout that.


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July 21, 2007

 

Mark Feldstein 		  Oh, I know Greg. I was just trying to help her avoid the problem next time. Course, maybe most people nowadays just spend their time photoshopping everything even if they could have avoided the prblems they're trying to fix by photoshopping in the first place? And now, once again, back to our train problem. . .
M.
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I guess photoshopping is the new national time-passer or is it partime pastime?


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July 22, 2007

 

Tammy Espino 		  :) Actually If I could of stuck my hands between the cage and the tiger & lions I would of instead of using photo shop! They don't let you get that close to them here. And I did actaully photo shop the cage out in the one photo. I just don't remember what I did as it was late. But thanks again :)


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July 22, 2007

 
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