You'll note my caveat that "Moose might not agree". <g>
On May 11, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 5/11/2013 11:12 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> I think this mid flip is more of a decisive moment than Joel's crapping
>> bird. <g>
>
> Both good looking birds. :-)
>
>> Favorite is the pink cap looking back over her shoulder.
>
> Ah. That's the only one that isn't a JPEG, straight out of the camera. She is
> in quite a bit of shade, and a bit small,
> even at 600 mm eq. So it's cropped and 'adjusted'.
>
> This is one of the places where I can't imagine LR would do what I want,
> adjusting a sharply defined masked area quite
> separately from the rest of an image, then being able to feather the
> transition very precisely at the pixel level. Her
> body is one mask. Her face is barely visible in the original, and treated
> separately from her body in another mask.
>
> Did you have a hint that the senorita was quite differently processed than
> the rest - before I pointed it out? If done
> as a roll-over, the adjusted one would look unnatural. Seen alone, I think it
> looks pretty natural - and the subject
> looks much nicer. :-P
>
> I almost brought the shady side of her body down a bit more, but decided to
> pretend that there was a light colored sea
> of flowers or wall just off to the left and the lighting was a little less
> harsh. Or I had an assistant with a fill
> reflector. :-)
>
>> Thanks for the señorita fix. It seems our formerly preeminent señorita
>> snapper has fallen off his game. <wink>
>
> Glad to be of assistance. ;-) My usual shooting haunts give me fewer
> opportunities than Nathan, but I do what I can. A
> warm weekend at the botanic garden brings out more kinds of flowers than one
> might imagine. :-)
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