Bernie Browder  wrote:
just had a little fun with this one.

Not a winner for our purposes here, but I really love the distortion effect you used--I would have never thought of that. Thanks!

Oralie Randall wrote:
Not a winner for our purposes here, but I really love the distortion effect you used--I would have never thought of that. Thanks!

No problem.    It was a fun photo.

Science V Romance wrote:
... but please refrain from adding any dragons or warlocks or other mythical creatures.

Free bump for that funny comment

zbilly wrote:
That was fun.

Glad you all are having fun with these! Not a winner for our purposes, but I really like the colors in this one, and how the you brought out my eyes while reducing some of the frizz in my hair. Nice job

Oralie Randall wrote:

Glad you all are having fun with these! Not a winner for our purposes,

Anyway to get another clue of what you are looking for?

Bernie Browder  wrote:
Anyway to get another clue of what you are looking for?

Sure -- I just got a copy of photoshop this weekend and I've been working on one of them (DSC 0008) to see what I can do with it. I'll post my "work in progress" sample when I get off work tonight.

Oralie Randall wrote:

Sure -- I just got a copy of photoshop this weekend and I've been working on one of them (DSC 0008) to see what I can do with it. I'll post my "work in progress" sample when I get off work tonight.

Ok cool, thanks

Bernie Browder  wrote:
Ok cool, thanks

No problem!

And in a general sense-- what the photographer and I are mostly looking for is to minimize background reflections that distract from my reflection. I've been playing mostly with the clone tool to minimize reflections, but tonight I'm going to try copy/pasting "blank" panel reflections in to cover some of the building reflections, then adjusting the color of those sections to make them fit in with the rest of the image, rather than cloning to fill in large areas of the lower panels.

I think the image you chose to work on, Bernie, could probably be edited to minimize "distracting reflections" most easily by cloning out the background in just the left most column of panels (leaving my legs intact, of course) and by cloning out the light post. The other buildings are not my favorite, but aren't too distracting, particularly because I think it's neat how the trees look like they're being blown in the wind once you add the distortion effect. 

We posted the challenge mostly because we were hoping other people would try things out with respect to reflection editing, and share tips if they succeeded in an area where I failed. But don't worry--we also wanted to see what other aesthetic changes people would take the photos to improve them, so we appreciate all non-reflection creative changes to the original, even if we don't think the final images match what we want published outside of the thread.

Oralie Randall wrote:
No problem!

And in a general sense-- What the photographer and I are mostly looking for is to minimize background reflections that distract from my reflection. I've been playing mostly with the clone tool to minimize reflections, but tonight I'm going to try copy/pasting "blank" panel reflections in to cover some of the building reflections, then adjusting the color of those sections to make them fit in with the rest of the image, rather than cloning to fill in large areas of the lower panels.

I think the image you chose to work on, Bernie, could probably be edited to minimize "distracting reflections" most easily by cloning out the background in just the left most column of panels (leaving my legs intact, of course) and by cloning out the light post. The other buildings are not my favorite, but aren't too distracting, particularly because I think it's neat how the trees look like they're being blown in the wind once you add the distortion effect. 

We posted the challenge mostly because we were hoping other people would try things out with respect to reflection editing, and share tips if they succeeded in an area where I failed. But don't worry--we also wanted to see what other aesthetic changes people would take the photos to improve them. so we appreciate all non-reflection creative changes to the original, even if we don't think the final images match what we want published outside of the thread.

Ok I understand.  The thing is though.  The location the building and the reflection are what I thought added to the photo(s) that is why I didn't really do anything with them.   All in all the photos as far as the style are already good.  Reflections are dark so other than eliminating some of the items in the reflection that I understand what you are saying.

With what I did, other than the obvious and distorting some things in the photo.  I just used some adjustment layers for tone adjustment and some D&B on certain areas.

For me, I like textures so the creases in the shorts for example I like.   But anyway thats cool I look forward to seeing your take on them.  There are no rules in photoshop.   usually.LOL

EDIT:  I might have gone a little over the top distorting the megaphone. LOL

Breaking Midnight Edits wrote:
Best i can do

The lazer's are great!  It was a working megaphone, and this visualization pretty accurately captured the sound of the llama screaming into the megaphone.

To maybe help clarify what we're looking for a bit more and identify distracting features...in this image straight down from the end of the megaphone the reflection of the people who stopped to watch what was going on is distracting...hoping to remove those reflections while leaving the reflective nature of the panel in tact.

Thanks for the edits so far, it's been fun to see how people interpret these images. It was a really fun shoot!

Bernie Browder  wrote:
Ok I understand.  The thing is though.  The location the building and the reflection are what I thought added to the photo(s) that is why I didn't really do anything with them.   All in all the photos as far as the style are already good.  Reflections are dark so other than eliminating some of the items in the reflection that I understand what you are saying.

With what I did, other than the obvious and distorting some things in the photo.  I just used some adjustment layers for tone adjustment and some D&B on certain areas.

For me, I like textures so the creases in the shorts for example I like.   But anyway thats cool I look forward to seeing your take on them.  There are no rules in photoshop.   usually.LOL

EDIT:  I might have gone a little over the top distorting the megaphone. LOL

For sure--I like that photography is subjective like that. As for me, my version ended up something like this...

http://orandall.com/S_v_R.html#5

I never did figure out how to seamlessly get rid of the buildings, so I just darkened the one on the right so it wouldn't be so "messy" over there in that corner. I'm still working on trying to get the megaphone to match the teal in my socks, and how to make my hair less frizzy. But it's been fun playing with it!

zbilly wrote:
Hair softened, Megaphone green, other distracting elements disguised.

Sassy, aren't you? Loving the green megaphone, though! I'm still trying to figure out how to get the colors right when I do it...

Breaking Midnight Edits wrote:
i took out the people from the image

Nice job! Will PM you about portfolio use

babylon_dubaron wrote:
meh
quick edit

It already looks a lot better than it did, especially for a quick edit! The one thing I find distracting about this one is the panel between my legs is purple, while the panel to the right is blue--other than that I think you did a good job making all the panels look natural while still removing the reflected features. And I like the icey-ness the blue tone adds!