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Here's one from Jack Fisher:
Happiness by Jack FisherThe picture of this couple is very well seen and taken and it lives up to its title perfectly. For me, it is a good example of a picture which isn't finished and can be made even better with a few minutes work.
You may not agree with all the steps I have taken. These include cropping, lightening the mid-tones using curves, cloning out the keys in the guy's right hand, sharpening and adding a border. I was working quickly and lightened the sky along with the skin tones. I could have left the sky as it was in the original, or even darkened it some more.
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Don't you think the pic is a perfect summary of the relationship between men and women? He's lost in the bliss of the moment and she's very happy too, but has still has her eyes open and fixed on the future.
2 comments:
Thanks Alan for the compliments, and the good advice.
I prefer the crop as it was, but do agree, that the skin tones needed to be lightened.
Nice cloning to get rid of the car keys!
One thing I forgot. Notice how Jack has used a bit of empty sky as his backdrop. If you view the uncropped picture you'll see some dark trees. The couple would have been lost against them if he had included them in the picture. Using sky as a backdrop for portraiture is smart but it is usually quite bright and may tend to fool your camera into underexposing your subject. You can overexpose your picture slightly and/or use fill flash to overcome the problem.
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