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    Steampunk - lady on stilts

    Taken very recently at a Steampunk event

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    Re: Steampunk - lady on stilts

    Nice shot.

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    Re: Steampunk - lady on stilts

    I hope to photograph a steampunk event sometime on the future...

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    Re: Steampunk - lady on stilts

    I love the costume and setting!

    A few thoughts (mostly technical) on the shot:

    1. Looks a touch underexposed;

    2. Looks a bit flat. Moving the white point and doing a mid-tone contrast adjustment would help here.

    3. Look at the crop on the bottom of the image. It looks accidental rather than deliberate. A slightly more aggressive crop would strengthen that part of the image.

    4. Tilt on the image. Again, it looks accidental rather than a deliberate Dutch tile. Either straighten out the image or go more aggressive with the tilt.


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    Re: Steampunk - lady on stilts

    Great points Manfred, thanks! The histogram was as near perfect as I have seen. I agree it looks a bit flat and I have therefore overdone trying to mute the background - duh! Will experiment with crop and angles.

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    Re: Steampunk - lady on stilts

    Quote Originally Posted by Jim A View Post
    Great points Manfred, thanks! The histogram was as near perfect as I have seen. I agree it looks a bit flat and I have therefore overdone trying to mute the background - duh! Will experiment with crop and angles.

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    Jim - one of the first things I generally do in post (after some of the preliminary stuff like white balance) is to set my black point and white point to give me maximum tonal range, which as a by-product also maximizes global contrast, so I get a histogram that just "kisses" the black and the white side.

    I won't do that in a low contrast scene (shooting in a foggy or misty scene, for instance).

    The treatment that is usually employed to tone down distracting backgrounds is to burn them down.
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