Posted by martie (Okinawa, Japan) on 15 February 2008 in Lifestyle & Culture and Portfolio.
This is the last image in this series. I know this needs to be straightened, but I can't figure it out in Photoshop. Also, on my sony LCD monitor it doesn't look that great, but on my iMac 1280 x 1024 it looks pretty darn good!
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I find the composition excellent. We get to see old instruments and a happy musician. The wall with its various shades and textures is also very appealing.
15 Feb 2008 1:48am
This is called a beautiful environmental portrait.
15 Feb 2008 3:11am
great photo! he seems so peacefull
15 Feb 2008 4:47am
He seems to be enjoying himself! I wish i could hear the music though, it must have been heavenly...
15 Feb 2008 7:15am
Why would you want to straighten this out? The perspective lines of the door frames, the floor, his instrument, the boards on the wall, out door post and rafters are all part of the strength of this very excellent image. The man himself is wonderfully captured in his quiet, competent joy.
15 Feb 2008 9:07am
nice capture
15 Feb 2008 10:21am
Nice shot. interesting subject, nice composition and lines. it doesn't look slanted to me, but it's your decision. I do know one way to straighten in photoshop (though I sometimes do it in Picasa which has a simple tool just for that purpose), though i don't know if it's the best way. You go to Image > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary. Then you choose a very small angle and rotate it, then you can crop out the edges. (Let me know if you find out a simpler way.) Also, if you don't want to eyeball it, you can use the grid lines (View > Show > Grid), and you can control the spacing of the grid lines (Edit > Preferences > Guides, Grid, Slices & Count...). Finally, I don't know about the monitor issue, but I do know that when aminus3 resizes images to 800 pixels wide, they lose sharpness, so it's better to resize yourself before uploading. Hope this helps.
15 Feb 2008 12:50pm
@danthro: Thank you for the info on straightening! I must have missed the bit about aminus resizing to 800. I will start doing that myself!
He looks as if he were sitting there forever.
15 Feb 2008 1:28pm
I like the way you captured the gentle light. It fits the scene perfectly.
15 Feb 2008 2:25pm
Very nice composition Martie. I like the tones and the lighting
15 Feb 2008 3:56pm
why don't u try taking your pictures un RAW format and then use the lightroom to edit them? there is a tool in that program that helps you really easily to straighten your photos :) This is a very nice picture!
15 Feb 2008 5:49pm
@Ale: Ale, I'll download lightroom today. Thanks for the suggestion!
What a nice action picture! I really want to hear the sound of this musical instrument...;)
16 Feb 2008 4:49am
This is one EXCELLENT composition, Martie! You really nailed this one!!! One goes entirely INTO the shot!!! (The easiest way.....forget the Photoshop which sooooo complicated - I wonder why? Just download Picassa, it is free of charge and it has one very good straightening tool. Don't forget to file the shot after straigtening, just give it another name.)
16 Feb 2008 5:05am
Very, very fine photo. Really get a sense of being there.
16 Feb 2008 5:16am
yep, nice, neice, nice, the framing is awsome it takes you right into the subject, good work.
16 Feb 2008 3:38pm
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