Sunset Workout

[indeedies]

I can't seem to spell silohuette and feel like a dumb ass lol.
I attempted to make this just an outline of my subjects but think I may have gone overboard with the edit. What do you guys think?

The purpose of the shoot was to photograph a sense of community for a local wedding vendor. She created a business by bringing together future brides and having fitness classes before their wedding. She asked the photographer I intern for to do the shoot and I was able to tag along and see what I get.

 

[JeffieLove]

The main thing I see is the lens flare in #1 on the girls hand being a big distraction...

 

[ajkramer87]

I like them. The only thing is the lens flare in the first one. If that wasnt there it would be awsome. I really like the second one. I wish we had areas like this to get pictures. I'd try to edit that flare out but Im not very good with ps yet.

 

[indeedies]

I'm torn on the lens flare. Sometime it adds to the image for me and then like you guys it's just a distraction. Does anyone know how get rid of lens flare in pp?

 

[JeffieLove]

I played with the 2nd one a bit... I thought the girl to the left was a little bit far away after reading your post and seeing that these were supposed to "symbolize" a community of brides to be...

I used the recompose tool in pse8 to kind of squeeze them all together without distorting them...

The white space shows you how far I shrunk the pic horizontally to squeeze them together

 

[JeffieLove]

I'm torn on the lens flare. Sometime it adds to the image for me and then like you guys it's just a distraction. Does anyone know how get rid of lens flare in pp?

In CS5 (coming out next month!) there is a tool that EASILY gets rid of distractions... I don't remember what it's called, but someone posted about it in the off topic forum

 

[indeedies]

Can't believe I missed that! Was just going to crop her out in LR and forgot all about it. As soon as I took the picture I immediately wrote down to crop her out and didn't even look at my pad. Thanks Jeffie!

Pretty cool trick though. I still find her kind of on the outside but I wonder if I can do that in CS4? I suck at PS lol

 

[JeffieLove]

yeah, she's still a little far away...

if you squeeze it in anymore, the girl in the middle whose legs are the farthest apart (not trying to be rude, just the easiest way I could identify her from the others) ends up with a tooth pick leg...

Basically what I did was squeezed it in as far as needed to get the girl to the right to look like a part of the group, then I realized that one leg was messed up ont he girl in the middle (hah lol) and I pulled it back out until her leg looked normal again...

Oh, and I actually meant the girl on the right... I just got home from my statistics class, so my brain is a little fried lol

 

[srinaldo86]

All done with Microsoft Paint.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

 

[indeedies]

^^^^^^^^
Well of course it's the basic PP programs that work the best for seemingly complex tasks lol.

Well done and thanks a lot!!

And how did you do that Bitter???

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

I lasso'd the chick.
Copy paste to new layer, move her over, pixel selected her, inversed selection, delete excess background, clone out old chick.

I should have flipped her to look into the frame.

 

[ajkramer87]

My shot at editing. Not the best.

 

[reznap]

Nice job Bitter.. I can't see any residue or evidence of the edit..

That was the one I preferred before, better with the girl closer.

 

[indeedies]

I lasso'd the chick.
Copy paste to new layer, move her over, pixel selected her, inversed selection, delete excess background, clone out old chick.

You make it sound so easy