Photo for a friend

[Michaelaw]

I did desaturated the cyan's in the lamp glass a tiny bit but one could just as easily not do that, to my eye it looked a bit too blue but then my eye is wonky sometimes

[kiley9806]

yes, i think the darker cloud has to go as well - it looks almost like smoke trailing from the top of the light. and the straighter up&down post improves the shot as well... it is a bit blue, which looks fine to me, but have you tried a b&w conversion? with a black border and a nice matt, it would be great framed!

[Mad Aussie]

I think be careful kat. Remember ... photography is subjective and your friend likes what she saw ... she may not be so impressed with the changes. It's what she likes, not what you or we like in this case.
Maybe give her two choices.

Having said that I like the dark cloud but agree it needs a tad of dodging ... but not as much as Michael did becasue he scared it right away and the photo lost some dramatism in my opinion.

[Michaelaw]

I think be careful kat. Remember ... photography is subjective and your friend likes what she saw ... she may not be so impressed with the changes. It's what she likes, not what you or we like in this case.
Maybe give her two choices.

Having said that I like the dark cloud but agree it needs a tad of dodging ... but not as much as Michael did becasue he scared it right away and the photo lost some dramatism in my opinion.

I did zap it pretty hard with the cloning didn't I but really I just did a five minute trip on it to give kat the idea that things could be changed. It did indeed lose some drama with my changes.

[kat]

I think be careful kat. Remember ... photography is subjective and your friend likes what she saw ... she may not be so impressed with the changes. It's what she likes, not what you or we like in this case.
Maybe give her two choices.

Having said that I like the dark cloud but agree it needs a tad of dodging ... but not as much as Michael did becasue he scared it right away and the photo lost some dramatism in my opinion.

Hmm..some how I missed this post and once again,,,confused. I think I should really dye my hair blonde

It's funny. I now have four version and sent them off. Most likely though..the original will be picked. But it's nice to get that variety for her..and practice in for me.

It was a hard photo from the beginning. A failed HDR with halo all over the place..patience was a virtue on this one.

[Mad Aussie]

Hmm..some how I missed this post and once again,,,confused.

Survival response. Your brain is learning to block me out. I have that effect on woman I think soon I won't exist to you other than in other peoples quotes

[kat]

Survival response. Your brain is learning to block me out. I have that effect on woman I think soon I won't exist to you other than in other peoples quotes

Awww..MA.. I couldn't forget about you! I get a good chuckle every day from yah!!! I must of missed it because you didn't have any smileys!!! That's not the norm!!

[Mad Aussie]

I'll try to 'emoticon' more then Trouble is Marko has the posts to set to a max of 4 images ... that's about 10 less than I need to express myself

[tomorrowstreasures]

Survival response. Your brain is learning to block me out. I have that effect on woman I think soon I won't exist to you other than in other peoples quotes

think of all of the sofas that will be saved if this technique is effective!

[Marko]

I quite like this interesting image; for me it's a bit too centered, but I still dig it