San Diego Wave

[gagehingeley]

Got this picture at Marine Street today. I was wondering how I could reduce the water blemish on the left side of the picture near the buildings. I am using photoshop and if there is any ways to remove such things. Also with this shot, with the blown out sun, not a very good idea to print correct? I have printed with blown out skies and its not bad but I just dont know if the combination of smudge on left and blown out really degrades the photograph. Thanks, Gage

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Canon 60d
Tokina 10-17mm
SPL Water Housing
1/1000 at f/9
Iso 100
Focal: 13mm

[flytyer57]

I don't see what is wrong with printing a blown out sun. What you see on your monitor should be what you see when you print. If it looks good to you on the monitor, go ahead and print it. I print all the pics I like and put them in a folder for my portfolio.

[gagehingeley]

Originally Posted by flytyer57

I don't see what is wrong with printing a blown out sun. What you see on your monitor should be what you see when you print. If it looks good to you on the monitor, go ahead and print it. I print all the pics I like and put them in a folder for my portfolio.

Yes very true. I just am not very experienced when it comes to printing at all so I wasnt sure if lots of blown out would degrade your image.

[Doug Sundseth]

That water-droplet artifact is going to be tricky to remove. You can do it with judicious cloning, but it's going to take some work and probably be pretty frustrating, since there isn't much to clone from.

Does it need to be removed? Your picture; your call. I think the image would be better if it weren't there, but I don't think it spoils the final image at as it sits.

[gagehingeley]

Originally Posted by Doug Sundseth

That water-droplet artifact is going to be tricky to remove. You can do it with judicious cloning, but it's going to take some work and probably be pretty frustrating, since there isn't much to clone from.

Does it need to be removed? Your picture; your call. I think the image would be better if it weren't there, but I don't think it spoils the final image at as it sits.

For now I kind of just decided to crop it out. The best way to crop without loosing your aspect ratio is to do Select>All then Transform selection and then hold down the control or alt or shift. I forgot which one it is exactly. Is that the best way to crop without loosing your apsect ratio?

[flytyer57]

I use Photoshop Elements 9 and it allows me to crop using the aspect ratio of the original, no restrictions or preset sizes 5x7", 3x5", 4x6" etc. Most times I tell it to crop to 17"x10.75" which is the size of my monitor. This way the picture looks right when I uses it for my desktop wallpaper.

[Doug Sundseth]

Originally Posted by gagehingeley

For now I kind of just decided to crop it out. The best way to crop without loosing your aspect ratio is to do Select>All then Transform selection and then hold down the control or alt or shift. I forgot which one it is exactly. Is that the best way to crop without loosing your apsect ratio?

If using Photoshop (or Elements) I'd use the crop tool and set the Width and Height as desired. (Leave the Resolution box empty if you don't want to resample.) Then just click and drag the rectangle.

For Lightroom, set the aspect ratio to "Original" and drag a crop window over the parts you want to keep.

With either, you can rotate the image as you crop, though the technique is slightly different. Let me know if you want something about that as well.

[gagehingeley]

Thank you very much!