Champs de Mars

edge100

Champs de Mars

Dogdots

I like

What a wonderful place to just relax

edge100

Thanks.

My only concern with this shot is the guy in the lower right. I tried cloning him out with PS, but it's not a straightforward job, especially since my wife wants a large print from this, and any cloning artifacts will show through.

Cropping him out doesn't work, since it kills the expansiveness of the shot.

Richard

edge100 wrote:

My only concern with this shot is the guy in the lower right.

Very nice shot, Mike. I think the guy adds balance and scale to the composition. I wouldn't try to clone him out. I'm not really sure of this, but it looks like the tower is just a bit off vertical and needs a nudge CC. Or maybe it's the wine I had with lunch.

Regards,

edge100

Richard wrote:

Very nice shot, Mike. I think the guy adds balance and scale to the composition. I wouldn't try to clone him out. I'm not really sure of this, but it looks like the tower is just a bit off vertical and needs a nudge CC. Or maybe it's the wine I had with lunch.

Regards,

Thanks.

Not the wine. It may need a very slight nudge.

Dogdots

I can see alitle tilt to, but I thought it may be how our eyes were perceiving it with the clouds. If I look at the building below it....it looks straight. But I could be way off on this and still sleepy.....:D

I don't see a problem with cropping the man out of the photo, but you will have to go a tad further in the crop to remove the little feet that will still be in the photo behind the guy, but you could probably clone those out.
I messed with it on my monitor and actually liked it cropped. The photo still keeps the tower off center. The hedges still reach out to you and I dont think the vastness of the grass layout is diminished. Try it..look at it for while. Bummer the guy was looking right at you.

edge100

Dogdots wrote:

I can see alitle tilt to, but I thought it may be how our eyes were perceiving it with the clouds. If I look at the building below it....it looks straight. But I could be way off on this and still sleepy.....:D

I don't see a problem with cropping the man out of the photo, but you will have to go a tad further in the crop to remove the little feet that will still be in the photo behind the guy, but you could probably clone those out.
I messed with it on my monitor and actually liked it cropped. The photo still keeps the tower off center. The hedges still reach out to you and I dont think the vastness of the grass layout is diminished. Try it..look at it for while. Bummer the guy was looking right at you.

Thanks; I'll give the cloning/cropping another shot.

As I said, my wife wants a relatively large print of this, and I know she wants this guy out of the shot. I don't mind him, but then again I dont decide what gets hung on our walls!

DaddyO

Like the original so very much. An angle of the tower I have never seen
and so very well taken. I'd go with your wife on this one. You have
enough in there for scale. If the guy was painting on an easel I'd tend
to leave him there.

Dogdots

edge100 wrote:

Thanks; I'll give the cloning/cropping another shot.

As I said, my wife wants a relatively large print of this, and I know she wants this guy out of the shot. I don't mind him, but then again I dont decide what gets hung on our walls!

Look forward to you posting your finished photo...cropped or cloned