Saturday, May 7, 2011

Leslie D. Martin - Project 5

 Leslie D. Martin
Raw adjustment, enhancement and correction
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1) Describe how using Camera Raw to adjust your color settings, sharpening and vignetting features to  improved your images:

Camera Raw helps put a more natural, "what it really looked like to my eye and not what the camera recorded" appearance to photos. The vignetting can be a bit gimmicky but can help focus the viewers attention on the subject.

2) Describe how you will use the Preset feature in the future:

It can be convenient when you have a batch of photo's taken under similar circumstances, which means that unless you do a lot of shooting in a studio using the same settings a custom preset is likely to be of limited use beyond a particular batch of images.

3) What was your intent for results by using the dodge, burn and sponge features:

 To create a more natural appearance and even out the balance between the lighter areas and the darker areas.

4) Explain how you decided which healing tools to remove imperfections of images:

I guess it really depends on the size and nature of the area to be edited and which one I think will do the best job.

5) What challenges did you experience in the process:

I find it hard to detect small subtle changes so I tend to end up doing things a bit more than they need to be and the results are generally less than satisfactory.

6) What keyboard shortcuts are you using regularly now:

Option-mouse scroll to zoom in and out.

The link to my Project 5 page is here and the above photo. I also have begun keeping a general index page up dated and that can be found here.

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