Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> Geoff Hopkinson wrote: >> >>> Was the background originally adding little or perhaps detracting? >>> Maybe I'm wrong is this just the heavy overcast blown to achieve that >>> very >>> fine exposure for your regal subject? >> >> Mostly just overcast sky, a couple of distracting twigs cloned out. >> Thanks >> for looking, and for your comments. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >If this was a bigger level of discussion list in terms of traffic; you'd >have at last three idiots yelling at you for having no integrity for cloning >out those twigs. You'd be repenting in hell and so on. >I'm glad for small favors. >Me I've cloned out plenty of twigs with never a second thought. >Never lost a minute of sleep on it. > >Do I want a twig growing out of my subjects left ear? >Not this year! > >Out damned Twig! (that's Lady Mac Shakespeare!) > OTOH on another list, composed primarily of wildlife photographers, several people suggested cloning out little things in the Pintail photo. Go figure.