Hi Steve,
I think the pose is unusual and you handled the comp and exposure well! I like the neck feathers fluffed (is that a word?) out and the sharpness. Nicely captured!
This is different - and that's why I like it. I find the head angle and the look intriguing - it makes me stop and ponder what is going on here. Excellent job on the exposure.
Steve. if you look at the bg, most noticable above his head, there is a graininess, that looks almost jagged. I looked at this one two monitors, so am sure it's not my computers. Maybe select the bg and do a blur? (I get this effect sometimes when I modify a jpeg...)
Wanted to ask... When I work on an image in Lightroom (only program I'm using right now) I make my adjustments and save to a jpg for posting. The only time I've generated TIFF files thus far has been the one time I had several images printed for a gift... Otherwise I don't generate any TIFF files.
I KNOW I'm going to have to break down and learn CS3 at some point... Too many tools available there that are not available in LR. In the time being should I be doing something different in LR?
I assumed the original is a RAW file, which you converted to TIFF. If it is RAW, I would save it as TIFF because it is lossless unlike JPG. Then do all the changes you want, reduce the size, sharpen and then convert to jpg. If the original is jpg then what I said would apply to that file.
Last edited by Axel Hildebrandt; 07-03-2008 at 12:54 PM.
I do shoot in RAW only... I ASSUME Lightroom opens those RAW files directly because I don't make any converstions or save anything to another file format prior to making any changes. I import into LR, click on the image I want to manipulate, make my changes, save to jpg and post on the web.