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herderdog
19th of June 2005 (Sun), 22:44
Took this shot this weekend of a friends lovely Black Lab.
http://www.pbase.com/image/45054259.jpg

200 f/2.8L II 1/1250s f/4.0 at 200.0mm
dkord
20th of June 2005 (Mon), 00:09
Great exposure on his face. Did you try to do some cloning near the colar and on his chest?
herderdog
20th of June 2005 (Mon), 00:17
Thanks dkord.

Yes, I had to clone a lot-he was weaing a citonella bark collar! We really hadn't planned to take any real pics--and the collar was really distracting.
I just switched to my laptop and I can see I need to smooth things out more--- it looked fine on my desktop monitor where I do all my processing- but on the laptop it is noticible.
I'll have to go back and fix that.
dkord
20th of June 2005 (Mon), 00:27
Amazing what a difference a monitor makes. It's a good shot. I like using the patch tool more and more these days.
herderdog
20th of June 2005 (Mon), 00:34
This makes me really want to calibrate that monitor!!
Just don't quite have the funds to do so right now. The highlights are much more pronounced on the laptop monitor--like the details of the nostrils.
dkord
20th of June 2005 (Mon), 00:41
Yeah I know what you mean, the highlights always gets too hot after you sharpen.I always do it on a new layer, use Luminance then layer opacity. IF I need to I might use some eraser on the over shiney highlights afterwards and flatten that layer to the one underneath.

Good luck to you.
herderdog
20th of June 2005 (Mon), 00:46
Thanks for the tips dkord!
This is the first pic that I have had a problem like this--I guess because of all the black.
I'm pretty new to all this --pics are getting better, but I still have lots to learn.
I checked out your gallery--very nice!
dkord
20th of June 2005 (Mon), 01:29
Oh Thank You Bonnie/Herderdog! I hope it works out for you.
tupe
20th of June 2005 (Mon), 04:27
another beautiful shot, Bonnie.
herderdog
20th of June 2005 (Mon), 18:23
Thanks tupe!
Here is a corrected image. I am probably going to print this one--and I'll work on it even more--but for now this is better, I hope?

http://www.pbase.com/herderdog/image/45095269.jpg
dkord
20th of June 2005 (Mon), 22:35
It looks a lot cleaner! You might want to control that diagonal line where the shades of black meet, just below his ear.
Make a test print and see how it looks.
IanD
21st of June 2005 (Tue), 04:06
Beautiful Lab. Typical Lab reaction to hving it's picture taken.
He is thinking "OK you got your picture, now where is my cookie?":):)