Il Sole Bello

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Il Sole Bello

Postby leek on Sun Aug 14, 2005 3:24 pm

Captured today at an Italian Festival in Five Dock, Sydney...


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Postby stubbsy on Sun Aug 14, 2005 3:34 pm

John

I like this - great colours. Tiny picky point - a little bit of halation at the edges of the arms, but this may be compression (but I can see it in the larger version)
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Postby leek on Sun Aug 14, 2005 4:26 pm

Quite right... Peter... I was probably a little overenthusiastic with the sharpening... I would redo it, but probably spent half an hour cloning out the background of that one and stupidly did not save the PSD file... :oops:
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Postby wendellt on Sun Aug 14, 2005 4:42 pm

Excellent subject matter
beautiful colour contrast

For a moment there i thought you went to the Venice Carnivale
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Postby stubbsy on Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:07 pm

leek wrote:Quite right... Peter... I was probably a little overenthusiastic with the sharpening... I would redo it, but probably spent half an hour cloning out the background of that one and stupidly did not save the PSD file... :oops:

Glad to hear I'm not the only one that forgets to save the PSD and I'm impressed with your work removing the background. I just figured it was against a blue sky.
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Postby leek on Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:31 pm

stubbsy wrote:
leek wrote:Quite right... Peter... I was probably a little overenthusiastic with the sharpening... I would redo it, but probably spent half an hour cloning out the background of that one and stupidly did not save the PSD file... :oops:

Glad to hear I'm not the only one that forgets to save the PSD and I'm impressed with your work removing the background. I just figured it was against a blue sky.


It was against a blue sky Peter... There was just a bit of distracting background in the blue rectangle under the arm on the left of the photo... there was also a lamppost on the top right... BTW... The reason for the strange angle is that she / he was walking on stilts...
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