Need some help with editing...

[RyanSteinwert]

Ive been taking some photos for a band, and on one of the photos, there must have been a tiny bit of finger oil on the lens, and the sun hit it in just the right way, so the picture has some prisms on it which are lighter than the surrounding areas.
Heres the picture:

A you can see if you enlarge the photo, there are multiple prisms of lighter areas. I dont work a lot with photoshop, because I usually just use lightroom for my edits. But I'm guessing you can go into photoshop, mask out those parts, and then individually darken those parts. The problem is that I just don't know how. It would be awesome to get some help on that, and next time, I'll make sure to clean my lens better!
Thanks a lot,
Ryan

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[The_Traveler]

I looked at the large picture and it will be harder to burn out those flares and have them be invisible then it would to retake the picture.

I would suggest different, more realxed poses and more expression.

 

[bianni]

Your photos are not OK to edit?

 

[Pallycow]

I agree with Lew.

The ones on the trees are easy enough, but the ones on the black clothing mixed with skin tone....would take forever....if lucky enough to have them match.

Not to nit-pick...but it's not a sharp file, there is some C/A in various spots, and it's not very clear. I'm sure it looks fine in the small version...but in large version...or print (large print)...It will not be that great of a photo.

Technical things aside....I return to what Lew said...as far as poses and expressions...that as well makes it not a great photo.

I would really suggest a re-shoot. Try to get a sharper, clearer image, and adjust poses. Also, the one girl standing square with the camera...generally a bad idea for a woman/girl pose to be square with the camera. ;-)


Good luck.

 

[Edsport]

I was about 15 mins using the clone, eyedropper and paintbrush tools. I saved a big file if you want it...

 

[RyanSteinwert]

Thanks for all the feedback guys! Unfortunately, I'm not able to do a reshoot, but I will definitely keep all that in mind, pallycow and traveler. Bianni, my photos are ok to edit. Im going to change that right now. Thanks for the edit, Edsport. I really appreciate the help. I would like the big file, if you wouldn't mind. I really appreciate that you took the time to edit that for me.
I can see now the problems with the focus being a little bit off, so I will try to look more closely before I take my pictures. Again, thanks a lot to everyone.

 

[bianni]

Here is an edit. Selected the affected areas with quickmask and placed in another layer, adjusted with levels and dodge and burn.

 

[RyanSteinwert]

Thanks, Bianni. I need to learn how to do that
did you run it through lightroom or something? the general colors look better.
Thanks for taking the time to edit this!

 

[bianni]

edited it using CS2

 

[Edsport]

I also saved a PSD file. I didn't do anything with the colors but you can easily do that in photoshop. Here is the link to download.
Download Edit.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way