Advice Request Regarding Dealing with Reflections

[rpcrowe]

I used the clone stamp tool to paint over the reflections that showed the window's outlines...

Quick and easy to do...

[paintingwithlight]

Hi Randy!

Yes Nik is pretty good for quick edits. Nik was purchased by Google so there are good Nik tutorial videos on youtube.

Cheers,

Michael

[RandyRFJP]

I used the clone stamp tool to paint over the reflections that showed the window's outlines...

Quick and easy to do...

Thanks, Richard, for sharing your expertise. Your version looks more "natural" than mine. I have to work on post-processing skills. I really don't enjoy doing it, but I've come to realize it is a necessity.

[RandyRFJP]

Hi again Randy,

The concept you're aiming for might work better for my sensibilities if you also lifted the dolphin (and immediately surrounding water) and it were printed on a white page - or use a white vignette and a wide white border.

Hmm, food for thought.

Dave, here's a version with a white vignette and a white border bounded by a black frame. The black frame was an unexpected addition, but I like that it, and the vignette, draws your eye to the animal. It might be, however, more than a bit too much.



Edit: I just realized that I edited the wrong photo!! My apologizes.

[Dave Humphries]

What definitely doesn't work for me is the hard white border inside the vignette, I had envisioned it just being a gentle fade to white all around.

I'm not sure about the black border, but could live with it.

I just realized that I edited the wrong photo!

Ooops

I get so annoyed with myself when that happens! (to me)