Somebody on the LUG thought the same so I tried cropping and came up with
almost the same crop. Check the next photo.
Tina
On Sunday, February 24, 2013, DZDub <jdubikins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> PESO:
>>
>> Almost finished scanning the B&W of the families. Here is Raquel making
>> tortillas in the doorway:
>>
>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/148936939
>
>
> I really love this one. It's tough! I wanted the detail in the darker
> areas, but I wanted little less grain/noise, and I had some qualms about
> the composition itself. You don't slavishly stick to compositional
> "rules," but I don't see what might be gained in not observing them here.
> So -- forgive me -- but I experimented with a 1:1 crop:
>
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=2873
>
> I'm not wedded to it, but I thought it might be good to see if you want to
> rule it out.
>
> Before cropping, I used the H/S tool to balance values a bit and used
> Noiseware at light settings. I thought that worked well enough. I moved
> the black point to where the pixels began to mount up, which cleans up the
> black a little but seems to lose detail. (It doesn't really lose detail,
> because there are no pixels there, but it darkens it. Still I think
that's
> what must be.
>
> I didn't like some blotchiness around her arm above the elbow. Using
> layers I blended in some gaussian blur to the background as well as to the
> highlights outdoors. I don't think it's quite "there" yet, but that's
what
> I did.
>
> In another set of layers I applied a bit of sharpening to eyes and hands.
>
> Definitely a keeper I'd say, whatever you decide to do with it, but an
> effort getting there.
>
> Joel W.
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