The tree and the rainbow

[Andres Bonilla]

I was wondering, should I clone out the leaves on the upper right? Leave it alone?

Thanks,

Andres

[Jeremy Roussak]

I was wondering, should I clone out the leaves on the upper right? Leave it alone?

Thanks,

Andres

I like it a lot but I think it's spoiled by blurry dark spoldges on the right, so I say clone. I doubt it will be easy, though, even with content-aware fill.

Jeremy

[stamper]

You have my permission to go ahead.

[Dave (Isle of Skye)]

I would crop.

Photobloke

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I would crop.

Photobloke

I agree. Cloning would be very tricky, and CA-fill would initially give very strange results (spreading the rainbow).

Eric

[RSL]

It's quite a shot. The trouble with cropping is that the crop is going to eliminate that triangular dip in the foliage on the lower right, and that triangle is important to the composition. How about a random clone job like this:

[popnfresh]

While it is cheating a little, I agree that cloning is the way to go here. Sometimes you have no choice but to "enhance" what nature has put in front of your lens.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

It's quite a shot. The trouble with cropping is that the crop is going to eliminate that triangular dip in the foliage on the lower right, and that triangle is important to the composition. How about a random clone job like this:

Nicely done, Russ. Cr*pping loses again!

Eric

[Andres Bonilla]

I like it a lot but I think it's spoiled by blurry dark spoldges on the right, so I say clone. I doubt it will be easy, though, even with content-aware fill.

Jeremy

Thanks Jeremy, it would have to be cloning since I am still with CS2 and I don't have content aware fill. I thought this new tool was wonderful?

[Andres Bonilla]

You have my permission to go ahead.

Thanks ! I think those blurry leaves have to go

[Andres Bonilla]

I would crop.

Photobloke

Ok a right crop I would assume, easy and fast.

[Andres Bonilla]

I agree. Cloning would be very tricky, and CA-fill would initially give very strange results (spreading the rainbow).

Eric

I just go an e-mail from Adobe showing how wonderful CA fill is, I guess is not that easy to use?

[Andres Bonilla]

It's quite a shot. The trouble with cropping is that the crop is going to eliminate that triangular dip in the foliage on the lower right, and that triangle is important to the composition. How about a random clone job like this:

Wow! That is a very effective random clone. I guess good old cloning is still very powerful.

[Andres Bonilla]

While it is cheating a little, I agree that cloning is the way to go here. Sometimes you have no choice but to "enhance" what nature has put in front of your lens.

Yes , I wanted to move to the left but I run out of ground! I also got soaked very quickly so I took several shots but this one hd the least clutter.

[RSL]

Nicely done, Russ. Cr*pping loses again!

Thanks, Eric. Yes, cr*pping usually loses, but cl*ning sometimes just doesn't cut it.

[tq-g]

While it is cheating a little[...]

There are rules?

I say crop, clone, paint, use dark magic to summon the spirits from the underworld... whatever gets the job done that you find is worth your time.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Thanks, Eric. Yes, cr*pping usually loses, but cl*ning sometimes just doesn't cut it.

It's always best to get it right in camera, when possible.
When it isn't possible, then a person's got to do what a person's got to do.

Eric

[Jeremy Roussak]

There are rules?

I say crop, clone, paint, use dark magic to summon the spirits from the underworld... whatever gets the job done that you find is worth your time.

I agree completely.

However, the last time I tried the dark magic option, I ended up with pentacles all over the shadow detail, so I'll not be doing that again.

Jeremy

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Jeremy,

Doesn't Nik have a pentacle-removal plugin?

Eric