It's a picture in a picture.

davevdavev Registered Users Posts: 3,118 Major grins
edited September 11, 2005 in People
A candid of a friend getting a little closer to the falls.

He was trying out my Tamron 18-200DI, so I took this with his Canon 28-70
with a polarizer

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Thanks for looking.
dave.

Basking in the shadows of yesterday's triumphs'.

Comments

  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited September 10, 2005
    What's the settings?
    Nice shot!
    Looks like you have at least half a sec (or even more) on the shutter, but everything else (ncluding) your friend is crisp sharp. Some serious PP, or how did you do it?

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    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • davevdavev Registered Users Posts: 3,118 Major grins
    edited September 10, 2005
    I did a lot of post work on this, including a gradient on the right side to lighten
    it up, resizing in steps to keep some of the sharpness. ( not like the one here )
    unsharpening, just a bit after each resize, then selecting the darker trees on the
    right side for some added contrast and brightness.

    0.80s f/22.0 at 28.0mm iso100

    Original

    49052119.jpg

    And the fixed one again.

    49033649.jpg

    I hope I explained this OK.
    dave.

    Basking in the shadows of yesterday's triumphs'.
  • thdizzythdizzy Registered Users Posts: 262 Major grins
    edited September 11, 2005
    Great job on the sharpening compared ot the original. Did you also use the shadow/highlight tool found with CS?
    Todd Disraeli - Star, Idaho

    Disraeli Photography

    "Only when the last tree has died, the last river poisoned, and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money" Cree Indian Proverb
  • FrancoisFrancois Registered Users Posts: 140 Major grins
    edited September 11, 2005
    I can see I still have a lot to learn..... always used PSP and have now moved to learning CS2..... mwink.gif
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    Silver Cloud Publishing
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  • davevdavev Registered Users Posts: 3,118 Major grins
    edited September 11, 2005
    Todd, Francois, thanks for looking.

    I used Photoshop Elements 2 for the post work, and the photo really isn't as
    blurry starting out as it looks here. When I resized the original pic, I went from
    3000 pixels to 760. I have found that by stepping down a few times, ( 1600,
    1200, 1024, 760.) and looking at the pic after every step to check the sharpness.
    the results are much better. This is especially true for pics with gradients in them.

    In this pic, I dropped the size down in one big step. Can you see the lines of
    color in the background?

    45822696.jpg

    This is the same pic, but resized in steps and USM'd a slightly between the
    steps.

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    Sorry about turning this into a tutorial, but maybe this will help some of the
    newer folks that use Elements 2.
    dave.

    Basking in the shadows of yesterday's triumphs'.
  • mereimagemereimage Registered Users Posts: 448 Major grins
    edited September 11, 2005
    Nice image and intersting post work, looks just a little'muddy' in the center green areas....nice tutorial-always welcome on down sizing....Mereimage
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