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05/24/2004 09:30:58 AM · #1 |
Post your comments, questions, and reviews for...
How'd They Do That
'Come Fly with Me!' by stdavidson
View this tutorial here. |
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05/24/2004 11:47:50 AM · #2 |
If you never think much about cropping your DPC entries then you might want to check this out.
This is really a tutorial on cropping rather than a "How did they do that?".
The final crop is better than the image submited for the DPC challenge. That is the whole reason for writing it in the first place.
:)
Cheers
Message edited by author 2004-05-24 11:48:24.
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05/24/2004 11:53:26 AM · #3 |
Nice tutorial, and well written. Informative but easy to read, even tho I'm extremly tired, so that MUST be a good point :) Can you tell us some of the dirty jokes? hehe
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05/24/2004 03:59:12 PM · #4 |
Very nice Steve! A touch of humor and lots of great information. I learned a lot!
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05/24/2004 04:11:31 PM · #5 |
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05/25/2004 01:53:30 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by Konador:
Can you tell us some of the dirty jokes? hehe |
Young Ben, you deserve more sophisticated humor like this...
Warning: Bad pun encountered beyond this point.
A neutron, an electrically neutral sub-atomic particle, walks into a bar. (That would be a pub where you come from)
The neutron goes up to the bartender and asks, "How much for a beer?"
The bartender looks, thinks for a moment, points at him and says, "For you... No charge!"
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05/25/2004 01:57:45 AM · #7 |
David and Roger,
Thanks for your kind remarks. I was pleased with the amount of bad humor I could incorporate into the always exciting topic of cropping images.
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05/25/2004 03:02:57 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by stdavidson:
A neutron, an electrically neutral sub-atomic particle, walks into a bar. (That would be a pub where you come from)
The neutron goes up to the bartender and asks, "How much for a beer?"
The bartender looks, thinks for a moment, points at him and says, "For you... No charge!" |
lol, nice :P
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06/10/2004 11:14:53 AM · #9 |
| wow just goes to show you how much you can learn. I would have ran as fast as I could with the untouched photo to a framing shop and would have hung it on my wall. The touched and cropped final result look nothing like (OK well maybe a little)the original. Thanks for taking the time to teach novices such as myself what makes good photography. |
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06/10/2004 11:28:51 AM · #10 |
So here's a cropping dilemma I haven't explored yet, and didn't really get out of this article (which I otherwise enjoyed much!)...
When I crop, I think only about the image aesthetics. It produces some nice effects, but with odd aspect ratios. Somewhere in the back of my mind I'm certain this causes big problems for printing in standard sizes (4x6. 8x10, etc).
Do most people crop with standard ratios in mind, or simply for aesthetics? If so, what's the trick to keeping the ratios? My cropping tool is pretty much free-form and I haven't picked up the trick to "keeping it real". BTW, I use the GIMP for my editing.
Message edited by author 2004-06-10 13:50:22. |
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09/03/2005 08:45:27 PM · #11 |
A very good inforative mini tutorial on cropping. As a military journalist a big part of our training is emphasizing the details by cropping "the fluff" not essential for telling the story. I like it!
Message edited by author 2005-09-03 20:46:13. |
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09/13/2006 02:25:41 PM · #12 |
| I heart cropping! Though I don't really feel that I needed this tutorial, it was nice to hear someone else sing some cropping praises. Sometimes I crop a picture 10 different ways to figure out which view is best. I think it's the singlemost underrated post-processing you can do. Yay! |
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09/13/2006 02:57:08 PM · #13 |
Lovely tutorial, Steve.
For what it's worth (this has nothing to do with cropping), Focus Magic can be VERY useful in macro shots. Here's a version where I used focus magic to crisp things up quite a bit, on a duplicate BG layer, then erased everything but the head and thorax of the Julia, leaving a crisper sense of detail in the key areas. If I hadn't erased, the antennae and various other edges would show haloing. I also cloned out the little white anomaly above the back of the head... The effect would be smoother if FM had been used on the full-size image before resizing, btw...
Whatcha think?
Robt.
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09/13/2006 03:48:13 PM · #14 |
| I'll have to go investigate Focus Magic .......thanks Robt!! |
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05/05/2007 10:22:51 AM · #15 |
Bear_music
nah...i preferred steve's original. No offense but yours takes away to natural beauty of it as its been sharpened too much and that makes it look really harsh and that took away all the details from the butterfly's wings , body if you compare yours and steve's.
Message edited by author 2007-05-05 10:28:35. |
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