Buzz in silhouette

Uploaded: December 05, 2010 10:12:59

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Straightened with the straighten tool, cropped. Transparent layer,used clone stamp to remove the towers first. Then still used clone stamp to remove the grass on the left and the ones between his legs. Also fixed the places where a grass in front of his legs made a bright spot. Then I worked on the very faint grass in front of him. I found all of these grasses difficult because of the clouds - getting them to look natural required multiple sampling - in fact I sampled with every clone. I also tried to pay attention to where the clouds and sky might naturally be and use an appropriate sample. Then I made an adjustment layer and darkened Buzz until the white on his chest was just barely visible (black of 8 I think), then lightened the clouds a little by moving the white to 244. I flattened the image. Then I thought it was too yellow-brown, so I applied a blue filter at 25%.

Exif: F Number: 8, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 1/4000 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 200, White balance: Manual white balance, FocalLength: 120.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS REBEL T1i

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