The City Sleeper

[longside1]

Hi guys,

I've just started a mini project looking at inner city life. This is one of the first shots that I have finished working on.

C & C would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Matt

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2248/...7dffd5a1_b.jpg

[Swampy]

Excellent shot, Matt!

[rad.homme]

hi matt. nice shot, ure shooting film?

[longside1]

Originally Posted by rad.homme

hi matt. nice shot, ure shooting film?

Thanks for the comment. I'm not shooting film, pure digital! The shot was taken with a Nikon D300.

[Mendo]

Ah...D300...my next camera.
Great Shot by the way!

[tthor71]

great shot, love it!

[Janet Petty]

Great shot. Let's just hope something nasty didn't get into his mouth before it got shut.

Janet

[Damo77]

Can you clean up the nasty halo around his lower left leg? Otherwise, I like it.

[MacBurg]

Nice shot but as mentioned above, you need to clean up your masking, especially around the the legs of the main subject. Looking forward to seeing more images, also which city are you basing your project on?


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[edgework]

Originally Posted by MacBurg

Nice shot but as mentioned above, you need to clean up your masking, especially around the the legs of the main subject. Looking forward to seeing more images, also which city are you basing your project on?


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Is that masking? Looks like sharpening halos to me.

[Dave.Cox]

Excellent shot. I like it.

I agree, I don't think that is masking. (Look at the hair). Possibly a sharpening halo as edgework suggested? changing the radius setting should fix that.

[MacBurg]

Now that you mention it, yes it is a sharpening halo, I had the same happen to an image I edited lately. Unfortunately I made an error and sharpened a full res Tiff file once finished editing, then saved, then resized the image. I applied a light sharpening to the small jpeg, and halos appeared. You can see it here -

http://shaunjquinlan.googlepages.com/sharpenhalo

Not an important shot anyway, sorry for going a bit off topic, but it is good to see the difference between masks and sharpening side effects.


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[Damo77]

I'd like to hear from the OP on this - that's not a sharpening halo.

I mean yes, I can see the thin sharpening lines, but that's the nature of sharpening. No worries there - like Dave said, you can also see them in the hair and elsewhere.

I'm looking at the broader, softer halos around the leg. It's either some clumsy masking, or clumsy "local contrast enhancement" (that cliched technique using USM at very wide radius).

Either way, it's clumsy, and detracts from the photo IMO.