Marnie, I gave you heading credit for pointing out the offending bale. Made this shot in about 1982 and the bale arrangement had long since been accepted. Like your "Big Barn". I downloaded and tried leveling it, but lost the top of the hill. Not good. Perhaps could be done with an enlarged canvas. May try it later.
Jack --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 7/15/2006 3:04:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Removed the lower right bale that Marnie pointed out as being > distracting. > With Paul's encouragement, I removed the bale and, now, I wish > someone > had spoken up sooner. (all I need is courage) > I think it's "better". > > Jack > > http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=130 > ======= > Yes, it does. Part of it was perspective, but don't know if I could > explain > that. Hmmm, maybe just to say the one you removed sort of interfered > with the > long distance perspective. Picture didn't "lay back" with it going > almost off > frame. > > Not sure how I feel about this, being in subject line, and all that. > :-) > > Guess I will feel flattered. But it was Paul's suggestion to enlarge > the > canvas and clone in a new edge. Although you didn't do that that is a > good way to > do it too. I keep forgetting that is the way to go so I didn't think > of it. > Paul is definitely the PS wiz around here. > > I've always manipulated photos. Right from the beginning, even when I > didn't > know what I was doing very much. Although unfamiliar with PS, I had > known how > to use PaintShop Pro very well from before. > > http://pug.komkon.org/03jul/bigbarn.html > > This was a scan from a slide. I was still pretty much a rank novice. > In my > third photography class my teacher thought it was one of the best > shots brought > to class. It started good, but had some problems. I was using slide > film but I > was printing my own pictures. There were some distracting elements in > the > dark area of the barn shadow, so I toned them down (exterior barn > lights as I > recall). There was a building to the right that I mainly cropped off, > but part of > the roof remained. It was a tin roof or something, so it was shiny. I > blued > it down so it wouldn't be so shiny and distracting. > > And it was crooked. I couldn't totally fix that, but I rotated it a > tad. > > The teacher, who at the time was completely old school and didn't > know > digital (now he includes digital photography in his class), loved it. > He loved the > time of day, the subject, and the way the fence "popped." > > And to date it still remains one of my favorite shots. > > I saw no reason a good photo should be ruined by a few distracting > elements. > Also, although I tried, I never could reach that barn at the right > time of > year and day again. > > I like it better, Jack. Good going. > > Although as I've gotten better I've had to manipulate them less or > not at > all. But still, sometimes... a little is all it takes. > > Marnie > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
