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evaners
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:41 am
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I kinda like that landscape, but it's driving me crazy that the hiker isn't standing on that rock that's right in front of him. I'd also tweak the greens and blues a little. And I took out the foreground rock.
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jeffbanke
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Location: www.xlr8photo.com, The real California
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:13 pm
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| Sebastian Charles wrote: | thanks rinder, dave5, matthi and rux for the helpful crits.
It's no use having knowledge and just keeping it in your mind, so I set up some lights in my lounge and applied the things you guys taught me. Even if it's not used it was still a good exercise in technical aspects of photography. Getting the technicals correct on a set of pliers is the same as getting them correct on all kinds of similar products. Like rinder said if the focus is off and there's noise then its dead in the water so its vital to get the technicals correct.
i've noticed when i make a side by side comparison of my crop on this site and in my image viewer that this web site makes my image look bigger and poor quality, what the hell? surely its supposed to be the same as the imge i see in my windows picture viewer? |
Looks like you nailed the focus problem:-)
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Sebastian Charles
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 2:43 am
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can I submit a mixture of illustrations, photos and vectors in my first 10?
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Sebastian Charles
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:43 am
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photography is great. when your taking a picture your mind focuses on the shot (no pun intended) and you forget about everything else in the world.
the technique for getting this silhouette is pretty cool, i made my monitor into a green screen, took the shot like in the movies and then just make your selection using green channel.
come to think of it, if you need a small light box but you dont have one, then just turn your monitor on its back. if you damage your monitor as a result of this then dont blame me.
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Sebastian Charles
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:45 am
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here's a man with a gun silhouetted and isolated.
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semmickphoto
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Location: Stuck between a shutter and a hard place
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:55 am
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Both images have jagged and rough edges.
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hhltdave5
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Location: Our Stock, Food & Portrait photography books at www.rindersmithphotography.com
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:00 am
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To answer your question yes you can submit all photographs or you can also submit illustrations etc.
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jeffbanke
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Location: www.xlr8photo.com, The real California
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:10 pm
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I agree with Ron and Dave :-)
Jaggies and Yes you can
Better way to do a silhouette is as follows
Take shot over white
Change mode to Grayscale
ADJUST-LEVELS move the black end all the way to the right (white end)
With this because of the spectral highlights I had to use black paint to fill in, but you get the idea
Then reselect mode to be RGB
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Sebastian Charles
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 3:41 am
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jeff - i tried your method but it still gave jagged edges.
I went to refine edge after making a magic wand selection over the black and white version from levels adjustment. then i went to smooth and it got rid of the harshness of the jagged bits, but is it good enough?
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Sebastian Charles
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:28 am
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I went hiking in the peak district on Monday and took some pics of my muddy boots.
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ruxpriencdiam
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Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:25 am
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Those are not boots!
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Sebastian Charles
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Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:22 am
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ok rux they are not traditional boots, they do have ankle support.
here's an image of a stream i took on monday at the peak district.
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Sebastian Charles
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Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 10:04 am
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ok, so the horizontal tilt was off, it's fixed now.
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jeffbanke
Joined: 18 Dec 2005
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:16 am
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| Sebastian Charles wrote: | jeff - i tried your method but it still gave jagged edges.
I went to refine edge after making a magic wand selection over the black and white version from levels adjustment. then i went to smooth and it got rid of the harshness of the jagged bits, but is it good enough? |
Yes it looks good enough now
I use the "Quick selection tool", then "SELECT - Modify - Contract - 1 Pixel> SELECT - REFINE EDGE - SMOOTH - Smart edge detection 24, Output to new layer with layer mask - Flatten image
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