Timely Help Needed, Sympathy Shots

Phyxius

As some of you may know if you've seen my site I am really into horses. I ride with an international level dressage rider a couple times a month and I received a very sad call from her today while I was at work.

She has a young rider (just barely a teenager) who has been working very hard to reach the Grand Prix (OLYMPIC!) level. Sadly, while he and his family were on vacation his horse coliced. This is basically an upset stomach, but in horses it can be and in this case was, fatal. They rushed him 3 hours away to Leesburg for surgery, but were unable to save him. Jordon was only able to compete in one show and they have no pictures of him with his horse. I did take a few at the show, however he happened to be riding at a particularly difficult time of day.

The trainer, Vanessa, has contacted me asking if I would allow her to purchase some 8x10s. I told her that I'd give her 8x10s free, but she needs them by Saturday when Jordan and his family return home. I was wondering if any of you could help me fix up a couple of the shots so I could take the files to Ritz :rolleyes so that she can get them by Saturday.

I've removed watermarks on his photos and turned off right click and have allowed originals. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Gallery
and, here they are as smalls






^^(This one is a flying change and if it can be fixed/saved/made nice it'd be a great one.)


^^This one is extended trot and while it's unforunate that you can't see Jordan's face, the picture is a good one of the horse.



So, any of the photos can be accessed by changing the "S" in the location to L for Large or O for original. Any help at all would be so sincerely appreciated. I'm just sorry I wasn't able to take better pictures that day.

Sam

I sent you an e-mail. I have one done, and need to send it to you.

It was the flying change. I think it will print up pretty well, but it had a lot of CA, and was somewhat over sharpened. When you get them printed, tell them not to add any sharpening. Depending who does the other photos you may not want to do any color correction ether.

Sam

Phyxius

Sam wrote:

I sent you an e-mail. I have one done, and need to send it to you.

It was the flying change. I think it will print up pretty well, but it had a lot of CA, and was somewhat over sharpened. When you get them printed, tell them not to add any sharpening. Depending who does the other photos you may not want to do any color correction ether.

Sam

Great Sam! Thank you so much! I actually had the flying change one printed, B/W in a newspaper, the quality of print made it okay but I wasn't happy with how it would look as a true 8x10. I can't access my e-mail from work, but I'll get it as soon as I'm home.

Thank you again!
Christina

ivar

Sam wrote:

It was the flying change. I think it will print up pretty well, but it had a lot of CA

This may be useful.

Phyxius

Thank you Sam! The photo was great and I sent it along.

Ivar, thanks for the link to Shay's action. I just got it and it's great! It might even have convinced me to keep this other lens.

Sam

Phyxius wrote:

Thank you Sam! The photo was great and I sent it along.

Ivar, thanks for the link to Shay's action. I just got it and it's great! It might even have convinced me to keep this other lens.

Now I am very confused, (much more than normal). OOPS! I just checked and see I did sent it to you. Ignore my e-mail.

Sam

Phyxius

Sam wrote:

Now I am very confused, (much more than normal). OOPS! I just checked and see I did sent it to you. Ignore my e-mail.

Sam

Haha, yes you had ME confused too for a moment there. Thanks again, Sam!