backlit lunch

[Jeremy Roussak]

Just for amusement. Thoughts?

Jeremy

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Reminds me of Rimbaud (French poet) and his poem about a carcass. Visual (in your case) poetry of disgusting. Photographically, however, you might want to crop or clone the distraction in the right-hand corner.

[Jeremy Roussak]

Reminds me of Rimbaud (French poet) and his poem about a carcass. Visual (in your case) poetry of disgusting. Photographically, however, you might want to crop or clone the distraction in the right-hand corner.

Baudelaire. But I agree about the distraction.

Jeremy

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Baudelaire....

Damn! My high-school days were soooo long ago. But I guess I was in the ballpark

[Rob C]

Damn! My high-school days were soooo long ago. But I guess I was in the ballpark

And, like moi, playing at something else!

Rob C

[RobbieV]

This really works. I feel like I've been caught sneaking up on the cat for a meal myself. The expression and framing put me right in the paws.

Clone out the bottom right though. Don't crop!

[RSL]

I agree with Robbie, Jeremy. It's a great catch. And, for once, I'd do some serious cloning in that lower right.

[Jeremy Roussak]

Thanks! Something like this? I'm very frustrated that the photo was taken with a (then current) 20D, so it has little resolution for a large print.

Jeremy

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

The cloning reveals a repetitive pattern... try cloning from several sources, not necessarily next to each other.

As for enlargement, you will be surprised how well 20D interpolates. After all, it is the same sensor as in the first 5D, and I've seen those blown up to seven feet wide.

[RobbieV]

Another technique to try when cloning is to make feathered selections of other parts of the scene you want to simulate and copy over to the area you wish to cover. Be sure to make the selection a new layer, and adjust the opacity in combination with a careful selection and application with the clone tool (with select from current layer and below/or just current layer; whichever works), and appropriate dodging/burning to ensure an accurate rendition.

 I apologize if this is something you already know for cloning/blending, or if I did a poor job of explaining it well.

[wolfnowl]

I agree with Robbie, Jeremy. It's a great catch. And, for once, I'd do some serious cloning in that lower right.

Okay, who are you and what have you done with our friend Russ?

Agree about the cloning, though.

Mike.

[Jeremy Roussak]

The cloning reveals a repetitive pattern... try cloning from several sources, not necessarily next to each other.

As for enlargement, you will be surprised how well 20D interpolates. After all, it is the same sensor as in the first 5D, and I've seen those blown up to seven feet wide.

I confess I'd not noticed the repetition. It's not actually cloned: I used content-aware fill on a heavily feathered selection around the distracting guts. I'll give it some attention.

Thanks for the reassurance about enlargement. I'll give it a go.

Robbie: my PS skills are rudimentary and I'm always happy to read advice. Thanks.

Jeremy

[Rob C]

I wonder what the young girl would think of caviar; do you think she'd eat it?

Rob C