To my eyes this doesn't look natural - it almost looks as though it's a digital composite of two images. I don't know if it's just the burn in of the face - it looks somewhat as though the other characters have been softened, while your nephew looks unnaturally sharp-edged.
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:06:04AM -0600, Christine Aguila wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > Finally upgraded to Lightroom 2.1 and had an opportunity to try the new > adjustment brush. Akira's face was a bit too bright, so I burned in his > face a bit. It'll take a bit more practice to get skilled at using this > new tool, but just wondered what you guys thought. Here's my nephew, > entertaining himself in line while he waits his turn to whack the tennis > ball. > > Funny thing about his tennis lesson: back in 1974 I had my first tennis > lesson at Mcfetridge (a Chicago Park), which is where Akira here in this > photo is having his first tennis class. Makes ya think . . . > > > Some funky light on the courts. Had to shoot really high ISO. I was > surprised. > > ISO 2000, long DA* lens, 103mm, 1/30 @ f4.5 > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8177392&size=lg > > Comments/critique welcome > Cheers, Christine > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

