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oh geez, not another one . . .

from Mike Dixon (mike@mikedixonphotography.com)
Yep, afraid so. This time I did some significant playing around in PhotoShop to make the image look the way I wanted. When I was initially taking the shot, the powerpack I was using didn't have enough juice to let me overexpose the shot the way I wanted to, so I did some dodging/burning/cloning to clean up some things and adjusting curves to put the tones where they should have been. Since I had already gone that far, I figured some selective levels adjustments and fine tuning of color balance and saturation wouldn't hurt. By then, I was sliding down that slope at a fairly rapid rate, so I hit it with a film grain filter, too. Too much?

[Unfortunately, jpeg compression muddied things up a bit--the original file is noticeably better looking.]

(posted 8175 days ago)

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