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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Serendipidous Accident or --CROP

Was interested in the silhouette of the curved limbs with the tree in sunshine behind it and the sky. Discovered the two faces in the image. Should I get rid of them? I think it adds a kind-of eerie quality to a somewhat foreboding landscape. Then again it detracts from the focal point of the image.

A7rII Contax C/Y 35-70/3.4

Nov 28, 2017 at 09:27 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Serendipidous Accident or --CROP

Clone them out!

They are looking at something that is out of the frame so I don't think they add anything to the image.

Nov 28, 2017 at 09:31 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Serendipidous Accident or --CROP

Nice image. I’d get rid of the heads as well.

Nov 28, 2017 at 09:39 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Serendipidous Accident or --CROP

Thank you for the replies. I have taken your advice and removed the two heads. BTW this is the first time I have used Luminar 2018 for processing. It has some nice features, but it's too soon to tell if it will become my goto processor. I use it in Windows.

Nov 30, 2017 at 08:56 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Serendipidous Accident or --CROP

Much better without the heads!

Dec 04, 2017 at 04:14 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Serendipidous Accident or --CROP

i still see a head, and the odd thing is that it's the head of the shortest person in the OP.

Dec 04, 2017 at 04:19 PM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Serendipidous Accident or --CROP

Your a head of the game in the second image

Dec 04, 2017 at 04:57 PM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Serendipidous Accident or --CROP

I have used the older version of Luminar but it has not broken into my workflow. I think the more you use it the better your results will be. I guess that is obvious. What I think is problematic here are the blues. The sky on the left seems oversaturated and the thin branches against the central bright sky seem to have some blue fringing. The high contrast color may be just the way your lens deals with such backlighting. I think this a very complicated shot with the backlighting, the profusion of foliage, and the way much of the foliage is blurred from being outside of the dof. I find that the tree itself gets lost in all of this. I would suggest taking some simpler shots with less harsh lighting to begin exploring your new software. Of course, the price for my advice remains two cents.

Dec 04, 2017 at 08:15 PM


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