 |             StuckInTheSixties: Actually, there was no blending, blurring, or smearing. It was all cutting and pasting. I took areas adjacent to the offending wires, using a "lasso" tool, copied them, and pasted that over the wires. Sometimes I was able to take long, skinny areas, running right alongside of the wire, and paste it in such a way that a sizeable section of the wire got covered up, with very little time and effort. But sometimes doing that would leave a visible sign of that work, a long line where you could see a subtle contrast in the shade of color. When that would happen, I'd have to resort to working with much smaller areas at a time, and the work would get more tedious and time consuming. There's no consistency in any of it. Sometimes it's quick and easy. Sometimes it difficult. On rare occasions, it's just impossible, and no matter what tricks I try, I can't get the work to become totally invisible. StuckInTheSixties: It helps to have clouds there the way they are in this picture. The cut/paste seems to be easier to hide with the clouds. An unbroken sky is very unpredictable. Sometimes it makes it the easiest thing, where I can quickly just lasso a long skinny chunk of sky right along side of the offending wire, paste it right over the wire, and Presto-Chango! the wire disappears. At other times, no matter how meticulous I am, no matter what I try to do, there's just no way to make the change invisible, and I have to accept defeat. The thing I've become convinced of with my experimenting and learning how to do this is that there are probably much better methods for doing what I do that I'm simply unaware of. I've tried Googling for tutorials or tips on this, but haven't really found anything that seems to fit what I'm looking for. |
November 4, 2011
This is a picture of Luna Vineyards, Winery and Tasting Room, which is a little ways down the road from where I live. (You can see the winery and tasting room buildings in the background.) This picture was taken well after the harvest of the Pino Grigio variety of grapes grown here. The vines had a very uniform yellow color with only a spot of green here and there. You can see the tall Poplar Trees in the background-right are turning yellow, as well. It’s mid-autumn, and winter is around the corner.
This picture has some considerable digital work done on it. The original photograph is marred by some electric lines that cut through the sky from one side of the picture to the other. After a considerable amount of experimentation, I figured out how I could digitally manipulate the image to remove the wires. It’s an interesting process that I’ve been applying to make pictures that would otherwise be terribly flawed, turning them into pictures that look quite nice. Sometimes it’s very easy to quickly and easily erase any sign of those ugly wires. In other pictures, it’s very difficult, tedious, or even impossible. It all has to do with lighting, and the way that the sky is uneven in shade in different areas. In this case, it took a bit of work, but the result was really good. I did the work a couple of months or so ago, and I know where those ugly lines should be in that sky, but I can’t see any sign of the work with my own eyes. That’s what I strive for.
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