Chincoteague the other day playing with my girlfriend's lens. The shot didn't even come close to being in focus, and it appears that, just like she told me, it's tougher to get good exposure with this lens.
Ahh, but LR and PS! So I've played around with a couple new techniques in finding the right WB, increased exposure, messed a little with contrast, saturation, concealing the bad eye, etc, and basically tried to hide the fact that this wasn't a fantastic shot to begin with.
Except that he was so graceful and proud and happy up there, soaring over me, enjoying and flaunting that freedom....
@frankhymus This was not a publishable shot to begin with, but it was a story that needed to be told. There's probably no mentoring that can be done with a shot that simply didn't come out sharp to begin with....
Well, if you have a fair amount of patience, you can do a little. In Photoshop. Magnify the shot so that you can see the pixels as squares. I usually don't attempt this on a large image, so usually have resized down to 1024 on the long side, the biggest that 365 will display. Then select a clone stamp brush of about 2 pixels. You should see the fuzzy part of the edge of the white against blue. Sample from two or three pixels out from the fuzz, and then paint all the way around the subject pixel or two into the "fuzz.." All the way round. It's actually what I did with the Qantas jet shot from two weeks ago. it's cheating, of course, but who knows if you are careful and go a little bit at a time, and you don't tell anyone. ;)
