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BenL
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p.1 #1 · My Dog

Hello everyone i am new to photography, I have used my friends nikon camera to take photos but i took these with a small digital camera. I took a few photos and i wanted to know what you think and what improvements i should make. Be honest please...I use adobe photoshop CS4.

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Mar 12, 2010 at 07:42 PM

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I'm frankly amazed at the image quality from a small camera! I'm impressed.

Both images would benefit, to my eyes, from cropping. Fortunately the image quality is easily up to the task. The pup's eye's have a little haze. Direct flash with dogs often has that effect. The nose can also pick up a slight gray haze from direct flash. One way I suggest is to use the lasso tool to select an eye, then Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Exposure and slightly reduce the Offset slider. Flatten the image and repeat for the other eye and then the nose.

Here's an example of reducing the haze and another suggested crop of the second image with Image>Adjustments>Shadow/Highlights tweaks:

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Mar 12, 2010 at 09:57 PM

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p.1 #3 · My Dog

Really love that cute expression in the first. I agree with Karen about the crop.

Scott

Mar 14, 2010 at 01:56 AM

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p.1 #4 · My Dog

Agree with AuntiPode and Scott, very, very good.

My first digital was a Canon G3 P&S - took superb captures albeit it limited for larger prints. Often simple is really better

regards,

Bob

Mar 14, 2010 at 01:59 AM

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