Golden Dog

[queenbee288]

Hey guys. When my nifty fifty lens came the other day, I took a lot of photos and at first they all came out awful. Mostly underexposed so I just forgot about them. Today I was looking at them again and I really liked this photo becuase of the warm light and the bored expression on her face. I worked with it some in photoshop and I think I salvaged it. What do you think? Is it a keeper or is it crap?

http://www.pbase.com/queenbee288/image/39726068


Thanks for looking.

Char

[fslshooter]

I worked with it some in photoshop and I think I salvaged it. What do you think? Is it a keeper or is it crap?

Looks good to me -- I'd sure keep it. If I changed anything at all it would be to get rid of the plaid seat cushion in the lower left. Nice work.

[Hellashot]

A couple suggestions:

FInd out the name of your camera: it's either a 300D or a Digital Rebel but not both

And if you should sharpen the image more, after looking at the original, it would look a lot crisper especially with all the hairs. I just used Unsharp mark on it - radius of 1, threshold of 0, amount 280 and it makes your original image on your website look out of focus.

I've come a long way in the 8 months I've had my digital rebel to learn that images need a bit of sharpening.

[JX]

queenbee288

First it is a nice photo. I would agree with Hellashot that some post processing with the Unsharp filter might enhance it further, but that is a small point. The only thing that I think that would have improve this image would have been to get some catch light into the dog’s eyes. I think it is a keeper.

[queenbee288]

Thanks guys for the comments. Hellashot, The camera is known as digital Rebel in the U.S. and 300D in other parts of the world and Kiss in Japan. Same camera. Takes the same pictures, works the same. I did sharpen it to 250 but that seemed a little too much for me so I tried 200 and that was better. It seems that what is too much on my monitor is fine when uploaded. I cloned out the plaid and recropped it a couple of times. By the time I got through experimenting with it I had ruined the quality of it and just trashed it. The biggest lesson I learned is , don't work on the original image especially as a jpeg and make a back up. It was a learning process.