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MrsP

Street Carnival

Hi guys! I went to the Cape Minstrel's Carnival today, and took a couple of shots. I've posted my favourite one's at http://picasaweb.google.com/potgieter.elna/CapeMinstrelCarnival.

Please have a look and let me know what you think of them.

Thanks and Happy New Year to all of you! PDT_Aliboronz_09
hil26

Hi Mrs P

nice and colourful, watch your exposures when you the skt in the shot, quite a few have "blown highlights", not too sure if your camera has a histogram function, but if it has, try and remember to use it, this facility has saved a few of my shots

regards
MrsP

Blown Highlights

Hi "Hil", thanks for your input. I must confess, thought, that the "blown highlights" are all my own doing on photoshop! Unfortunately, a lot of the shots came out very dark, as the direction of the parade, surrounding trees and the sun's position clashed. I tried to fix the shadows in photoshop, and this was what I came up with. As you can see, I'm not to brilliant at this, thus the problems. Will work on them again, and see if I can improve.[/img]
hil26

hi

when working on the images in PS, try masking the sky areas, then do the adjustment and see what comes up - don't forget to inverse the selection though
creators

I think you've done an amazing job on the pictures. I especially like the shot of the girl with the hat sitting down. As Dave (Hil) says, you can be selective about what you adjust using the lasso tool, or the magic wand, if you select the sky and invert the selection then feather the selection (if your pictures are 3000 x 2000 approx, try feathering by 50 - 100, if it doesn't work try a different number) any adjustments will only affect the selected area. So you can lighten the foreground and leave the sky alone.
Simonzphotoz

I can't believe no one mentioned it. Next time you could try using fill in flash to get rid of the shadow on their faces. great shots though.

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