Quick sanity check

[RobDickinson]

On an album of stuff due to be printed soon. New monitor 'factory calibrated'+ aRGB workflow to sRGB etc..

Any glaring 'Errors'on the pics would be nice too..

http://www.zarphag.com/Parklands/

[4Lmike]

Not as far as I can see. Some really lovely pictures in there Rob

[Fume troll]

Lovely photos. The ChristchurchCity and more so the Stadium one look slightly squiffy to me. I wonder if the buildings could stand having the horizon leveled a touch? Maybe it's just me but it feels a bit uneasy.

Cheers,

FT.

[RobDickinson]

Cheers, mebe the stadium one could do with a little straigtning.. Theres a natural look that will have it not looking straight but that looks like a bit too much.

[crmcatee]

Did you plan on having two 'punting' images. One with and the other without the people. I would have probably got rid of the car also

[RobDickinson]

Yep, I was going that way but the client wants one of each (well 5 of that one in total... A1 framed, 2 * A1 canvas, 2 * A2 canvas!)

[MartinP]

Fabulous set of images!

The red flowers in the foreground of shot 12 look over saturated to me.

[Pixel Pusher]

crmcatee said:

Did you plan on having two 'punting' images. One with and the other without the people. I would have probably got rid of the car also

This for me too Rob. Really fussy now but do you think that the big shadow in the lower right corner this image should go?

Other than that, a great set of images, thanks for sharing.

Edited by Pixel Pusher on Thursday 9th June 12:07

[RobDickinson]

How did you do that? With Clone? Not sure my photoshoping would be up to it.

[Pixel Pusher]

Hi Rob, hope you are well.

The thin line was a clone, but for the large area, try making a mask (path to selection or quick mask) but keep it tight to the edge of the shape, give it a feather of no more than 1 - 2 pixels, then once the selection is active, put a colour correction curve over it to brighten it up.

play with each of the colours in the curve until it resembles it's surroundings and stay off the extreme shadow end so it doesn't go milky in the darks. You may have to have a little clone for any rogue edges.

Give it a go. It's an old trick we used to use when eliminating oil bubbles from transparency drum scans. This was in the Photoshop days before the healing tool.

[RobDickinson]

Chers, its a HDR so I may pull in the +2 and use that to fil in those bits may work out.

[jr502]

Probably worth fixing the fringing on the daisy shot, and smooth out the blur you have applied. To me, at the moment the blur leaps out as a quick photoshop.

[RobDickinson]

jr502 said:

Probably worth fixing the fringing on the daisy shot, and smooth out the blur you have applied. To me, at the moment the blur leaps out as a quick photoshop.

What blur, thats not photoshoped. Tho the daisy does have a fringe I will fix thanks.

[jr502]

RobDickinson said:

What blur, thats not photoshoped. Tho the daisy does have a fringe I will fix thanks.

How did you have two points in focus, with the bit between them so massive out?

[RobDickinson]

jr502 said:

How did you have two points in focus, with the bit between them so massive out?

Shallow depth of field and that section was infront of the plane of focus.

[jr502]

This one?

http://www.zarphag.com/Parklands/#little-hagley-da...

I really cannot see how that's just DoF. I'm not knocking it, just trying to understand how that was done without PP'ing it.

[MiniDiva]

Really lovely pictures - I particularly like the blossom trees / forest / lighthouse / jetty pictures - the light is so lovely I actually feel like I am there and stood in the sunshine feeling the warmth.

Very odd/hippy sounding huh, but I guess that's good photography for you - I hope to achieve that one day

[RobDickinson]

Cheers MiniDiva

jr502 said:

This one?

http://www.zarphag.com/Parklands/#little-hagley-da...

I really cannot see how that's just DoF. I'm not knocking it, just trying to understand how that was done without PP'ing it.

Yep that one, the leaf in the center between the daisy and the grass is just a bit closer to the camera than the subject.

At 200mm f3.2 and about 1.5m focal distance DOF is so small anything gets majorly blurred as soon as its out of that focal plane.

It would make more sense for you if it was shot at an angle but its basicaly shot horizontal with the ground,

[RobDickinson]

Quick update, spent a few hours yesterday hanging half of this batch of canvas prints. They came out superbly, OK not all the images I would have chosen but the client is very happy.



pad5 by robjdickinson, on Flickr

[paul911]

Looks great, well done Rob