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02/08/2007 12:15:39 AM |
Background as mentioned is rather distracting. One thing would be to take it on a plain background - another, if that is not possible, would be to take advantage of advanced editing to selectively desaturate just the background. Sometimes people use this technique to leave the subject alone colored for emphasis. What I would do is in Photoshop, use an adjustment layer (layer --> new adjustment layer) to desaturate the shot. There are multiple ways of desaturation - see this tutorial by Leroy. Then you could use a mask (one of the little symbols at the bottom of the "layer" window) and paint black (or white, I could be mistaken) on it in the areas that you don't want that layer (the desatuation) to be (so you'd paint over the fish, leaving the fish colored.
Also in your shot, it appears that the fish is not in as much focus as would be desirable. Sharpening (I like smart sharpen in Photoshop CS or Neat Image, which is a stand-alone program that also works as a photoshop plug-in, and removes noise as well as sharpening) would be good or you could watch the focus when taking the shot. I can also see some haloing around the string - this type of effect is usually an indication of post-processing and draws attention to the processing as well as simply being distracting.
Colors are nice and composition is great. I like that you got the fish level and it's not hanging to one side or the other. In some shots, the composition being balanced is more important than others (like archetecture shots, where leaning buildings look really strange) and this is one of them (it would be just so obvious with the string if it weren't level), so I think you did a great job here.
edit: Here is a tutorial on layer masks and here is a tutorial on how to do selective desaturation under the basic editing rules (the thing I explained above, or layer masks in general, are not legal in basic).
Message edited by author 2007-02-08 00:19:54. |
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01/20/2007 09:15:54 AM |
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01/18/2007 09:09:41 PM |
| This image is a little washed out colorwise, but the humor and idea are great! |
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01/18/2007 08:38:36 AM |
| I don't relly like this one. It's just not unique to the subject. I am still rating you as a 5 |
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01/17/2007 01:55:53 PM |
| LOL that's mean ;) great title |
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01/17/2007 12:21:15 AM |
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01/16/2007 06:42:43 AM |
| Are you sure that ruler is for fish. LOL. |
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01/15/2007 11:01:27 PM |
| I'm having a real hard time understanding this pic. Surely you meant to say something bad about women???? :P |
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01/15/2007 02:25:26 PM |
| the image is not really sharp and I don't see the other side - what do women do? |
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01/15/2007 10:09:04 AM |
Image lighting is flat. Subject is not interesting. Paneling background impacts this image in a detrimental way.
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01/15/2007 05:52:01 AM |
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01/15/2007 12:51:56 AM |
| Heee... I love the (maybe unintentional?) subtext here. |
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01/15/2007 12:30:24 AM |
| damn, i need one of those! |
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