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Steve Canuel
03-02-2008, 06:37 PM
This buck was laughing at me because he knew my meager photographic abilities would not allow for a properly captured photo. This picture came out looking soft everytime I tried PP so I decided to go that direction and see what I could come up with. 20D, 1-400L, f6.3, 1/125s, ISO 1600. I did a couple of heavy handed passes with NR and some light blending modes in layers (don't remember exactly which ones) to come up with this "painterly" interpretation of the scene.
Steve

Fabs Forns
03-03-2008, 04:04 PM
The painterly look works great here. I would move the buck a bit more to the right for a stronger composition.

Steve Canuel
03-03-2008, 11:33 PM
Thanks for the comments Fabs. I'm often torn on how to compose a subject heading one way and looking in the opposite direction. Do you give him room to look back into or room to walk into?

Fabs Forns
03-04-2008, 12:13 AM
Steve, the room should be always for him to look into, even if the body is the opposite way. Negative space in front of the face :)

Steve Canuel
03-04-2008, 01:16 AM
Thanks Fabs, I should be able to remember that!