Walkabout and a wedding

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Walkabout and a wedding

Postby Geoff on Sat Jan 07, 2006 6:30 pm

This is another shot I took at the wedding I just happened to walk past yesterday. I've done some severe PP on this image as I liked the actual photo of the bride but there was some very distracting background. I'm not sure if the blackness has taken away and is too much of a contrast to the white of the bride etc. I was just mucking around with PS and trying something a bit different. Would appreciate thoughts/comments good and bad. Cheers.

I deleted the actual image here as in hindsight it was not really worthy of a post...appreciate initial feedback but perhaps I shouldn't have posted it. hehe. :shock:
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Postby MCWB on Sat Jan 07, 2006 6:54 pm

Yeah not a fan Geoff, smacks of being PS'd in I'm afraid. Tried selecting the background then Gaussian Blur with radius 10-15 pixels? Instant creamy bokeh. ;)
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Postby Geoff on Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:11 pm

Yah...thanks Trent - good idea re gaussian blur. I just did a quick job on it now. I think this is better:

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Postby nito on Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:15 pm

Agreed, the gaussian blur does wonders to the image. :D
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Postby MCWB on Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:36 pm

Geoff wrote:I think this is better:

Me too, nice work! Missed a little bit on the lower left hand side of her veil I think, but otherwise nice. :) Is there a slight cyan cast there? Maybe my eyes are deceiving me, it's late. :?
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