Hi all,
I'm working on this image at the moment. I'm pretty happy how it's going but I can't seem to shift the halo I'm getting around the vertical post, any tips eagerly accepted! Also any other CC as always welcomed. Thanks :)
A couple of old photos taken while the Amtrak was stopped - somewhere in Colorado, I think?
(And yes, I like that the vertical leans!)
Just a heads up for anyone that may be interested (and as things are slow in the group.....).
This female has arrived at Hamerton. This place rescues animals from all over the world, mainly endangered species, and they breed when they can.
I've photographed Ady a few times now. We get better each time as a team. This image was a fave from our latest session. I hope you like it to.
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Hi paul, That is nice, I like it.
Is the halo you mention just below the horizon? If so I suspect it is an optical effect perhaps partly caused in lens but also somethng to do with our eyes playing abit of a trick on us. Making us see the blue as lighter because the blue is so close to a very high contrast edge. I had a very similar, but oposite, effect in a photo I took, also by the sea, earlier this year, of a silhouetted cyclist against a clear bue sky. I shot on a Phase One with one of the Schneider prime lenses, so very high quality kit in deed. I had it on demo loan. There is a dark shadow around the cyclist in my photo which was entirely a photographic effect. Have a look.
In your case I would have thought it would be easy to clone over the blue to ensure that the camera lens combo's effect has been eliminated, after masking the pole.
Thanks Ian. I really like your photo and yeah, I see what you mean. I've managed to get it a little better by using a radial filter (with an inverted mask) and tweaking the contrast. I think I'm going to have to do a little cloning, I think any more tweaking is just going to have diminishing returns. I doubt now that anyone else but me would notice it, but you know what us photographers are like.......
I don't know much about about the editing, but I think it's turning out great!
Thanks Jayden :) It's taking me longer to learn the editing than anything else!
I think I'm happy with this now: https://fstoppers.com/photo/103201
Hi Paul,
Nice image...pretty minor halo effect on my monitor. I've had this show up on images when I reduce the lumanance on the blue channel in LR to far. Not sure if that is what is going on here. Have you attempted a "heal" repair along the pole edge to see if it would solve the issue?
Mike
Thanks Mike. This is the final image now I think, I played a little with blue channel (Head slap moment there for me! cheers!) and I think I can put this one to bed now! https://fstoppers.com/photo/103201
I think a low opacity clone action would gently fill the halo.