Cleaning up distractions
Here's a waterfall i recently shot. I put it through Photoshop to get rid of distractions and things that made it look messy.
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LUCY IN THE SKY
I just messed about with the photograph of a luscious, large green tree against a nice blue background with the clouds, but I decided that was boring, so this is what I did to it.
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INTENTIONAL CAMERA MOVEMENT OR INTENTIONAL BLUR
I'm going to be trying this again because I rather like the outcome of this on my lavender in the garden, which has finished for the summer now, so I couldn't go and do it again.
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2 Comments
what did you happen to use in your editing it got a little HDR on you and the colors went a little crazy did you also warp the center or shoot 2 different focal lengths
The before image is the raw out of camera shot. The second has an 8x10 crop and a bunch of pushing and pulling of light and color. At the very end i wasn't happy with it so i ran it though snap seed on my phone with a accentuation filter which made it more vibrant and boosted contrast. The sky was an issue kinda still is. I shot it at sunrise so the sky still had the reds and pinks in it. It was shot with a 70d so the dynamic range leaves a bit to be desired. I did a much darker exposure for the sky but the fringing through the trees was unmanageable. I did a second angle that omitted the sky completely and turned out better but i really like this composition.