Girl in a heart

A crop a bit like this would keep the heart cut-out and the girl but remove most of the other distracting material. Still needs the area beyond blurring though.

Yep in need of a crop

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Pixelda says:

Where do you start?
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Chris Tait says:

oh I was hoping someone wouldn't ask that! It's a headache of a pic as it is!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

OK Chris...
Well, the foreground is a little over-exposed and not quite in focus. The girl is in focus and exposed OK. Sadly, the area behind is also in nice sharp focus so is a distraction.

A shallower DoF to keep the girl in focus but throwing the background out would have been better (you could try the blur tool within ps but it won't be as effective).

There's some squiggly stuff around the top and right hand side that I found very distracting - possibly a crop would sort that (suggested above in note).

You could also try sort out the keystoning (where the upper corners converge) and then do the crop - you would get a neater result.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

JonTait2002 says:

I agree totally with Haysie, you should start with the crop then some post processing to make the girl the centre of your attention. You can either do that with the DoF or through colours, I personally would choose DoF as there isn't enough colours in the girl to make hger stand out if you increased the saturation and made the background B&W.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Onken Bio-pot says:

i think that if you selected the square edge around the heart, then cropped to it that would look ok. then you could fix the converging verticals at the top and blur the area behind the girl. that would look nice. :)
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Chris Tait says:

Keep 'em coming.......
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Chris Tait says:

OK as I can't just nip back and re-shoot the pic this is 2 mins work in photoshop taking into account the suggestions so far:

Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Pixelda says:

Create an oval selection mask around the middle
Create a selection and feather by 100 pixels
Copy/Paste the selection
Increase exposure and sharpening in the centre layer
Decrease exposure and blur the outer layer
Flatten image - you are done

I do this with some of my images
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Haysie1 says:

I think the newly processed version is much better Chris but keeps the humour of the subject.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

JonTait2002 says:

I agree, well done mate, looks much better!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Chris Tait says:

Ta all. Will have a go at Pixelda's suggestion soon too!
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

gin soak says:

excellent stuff, the new version is lovely - the heart frames it really well.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

Chris Tait says:

Thanks Gin Soak. As I said in the other pic. Next time I'm there I'll take one from the other side and give you all another headache in tryingto make it e better photo again! :) I have a pic of the full sculpture that I will get up as soon as my computer is re-built.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

rogerandcarole says:

Hi all, I made the Sculpture....thanks for posting the photos!! There's more of my work at www.flickr.com/photos/rogersforge/ and you ought to check the shots babka_babka took with colour filters
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

Chris Tait says:

Hey there! Great to meet the person that makes these things. A lot of sculpture goes straight over my head - as seen from some of the comments I have on the ones that I took at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. But I really liked this one. A real fun feeling to it and put a smile on my face!

Good work!
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

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