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Fog
« on: May 20, 2013, 02:18:25 pm »

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Re: Fog
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2013, 03:21:21 pm »

It's very atmospheric, but I find the circular blobs in the centre rather distracting.

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Re: Fog
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2013, 05:22:04 pm »

the "blobs" look to me like flare, shaped like the lens diaphragm. Perhaps you could smooth them out a bit with some content-aware fill or brush so they are less noticeable. With those fixed, I would like this one a lot.

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Re: Fog
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2013, 10:05:28 am »

Interesting. It does look like lens flare, doesn't it?

It's not, this was shot through a window, and those are water droplets. Combined with the light, though, it looks like flare. I suspect that having once seen it as flare, it's pretty hard to "see" it the way I do. Now I have to think about how to correct that..

I want the droplets, those bright aperture shaped blobs, but I want it to read as "seen through something" not as "lens flare"

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Re: Fog
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2013, 11:16:05 am »

Andrew, how far away are the blossoms from the window? How far from the windows was the camera? What aperture did you use. I'd have been able to get some of this info from a download of the picture, but the metadata has been deleted. You're going to need a bunch of DOF to do what you say you want to do. "Tripod" leaps to mind.
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Re: Fog
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2013, 11:28:57 am »

Well, it was shot from a car on the skyline drive in Virgina, so I am about 200 miles from the blossoms now ;)

This is what it is. This was a case of 'there are these things appearing from time to time, can I make something of them?' and this was the solution I devised. Softness is not a problem for me here, deliberate softness was (essentially) the solution that presented itself. The image is already heavily burned and dodged and frankly painted on.

Any further work I do will probably break up the bright region upper left to reduce the sensation of lens flare, and probably try to define the "blobs" a bit further, to make them look less like optical artifacts and more like the translucent objects they actually are.

Please note that the "shot from a car etc" is not intended as an excuse. I make no excuses. Either the result is worth showing, or it's not. This one, I feel, has some potential. If it fails, it fails; if it succeeds it does not succeed through some sort of "difficult shot affirmative action" program.
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