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    I found this female coyote in a local cemetery laying next to a grave (kinda spooky). I shot the image and then converted into B & W.

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    Last edited by Mike Delgado; 12-15-2013 at 08:49 PM.

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    Hi Mike - please post your tech/exif data including camera used, lens, focal length if zoom, shutter speed, aperture, ISO and any significant pp.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rachel Hollander View Post
    Hi Mike - please post your tech/exif data including camera used, lens, focal length if zoom, shutter speed, aperture, ISO and any significant pp.

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    Done.

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    Hi Mike you should mention when /if you remove parts from your images, thanks.
    Think image has suffered a lot from heavy cloning and /or removing things,

    Thanks Andreas

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    I guess you have blurred out the names on the gravestone, but it also looks as if everything was blurred somehow. Or perhaps it's two images blended?
    I think we need to know more about the original image before we can add more comments.
    Ed

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    Hi Mike, I agree on the above comments, I think we need some more background/history to the image, plus it's always helpful in relation to feedback too.

    Overall the image needs more tonal contrast I feel, likewise you could have upped the DOF. IQ is certainly lacking and the headstone lighting doesn't look right, just looks too light based on the overall conditions IMHO. Hopefully with more information better feedback can follow. Was the B/W conversion to tie in with the spooky feel you had in mind? If this shot was take a while back, perhaps halloween may have been a bester choice of date?
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    Wow! Great feed back. My photo shop skills are minimal but I asked a friend of mine to clean up the image for me. There was white bench on the right that was removed & another tomb stones on the left. Cropping & sharpening was applied to the image and i shot this in color & then converted it to B & W.

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    Hi Mike that is 100% better, all I would do is address the brighter/whiter RHS parts and obviously the wording on the head stone. If you duplicate the layer and work on this for retouching and then use a mask to reveal the work then you can be more specific and if it doesn't work just ditch it. Bringing in the white slider in Levels to around 250 just helps, but again you may need to mask the brighter elements.
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    Well, Mike, for what it's worth (FWIW) I prefer your repost. Better details and tonal contrast and I don't mind the stuff that you had removed. I also prefer the tombstone with details, gives it a more ominous (and real) feeling.
    Good pointers given above by Steve.
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