I am glad the hedgehog is off to the side and not right in front of the tire! Great color, I really like the color reflecting off the windshield. Excellent angle and perspective. ~Sharon
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18-Feb-2006 21:53
Lovely light and fun perspective. -Michael
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17-Feb-2006 18:34
Looks great!
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17-Feb-2006 17:07
Thank you very much Olaf for taking the time to make these suggestions - I've updated the image along these lines. The extra saturation from the profile manipulation takes it a little further than I would normally go but I do like the effect so hey lets see what the feedback is. As for the sharpening, mea culpa, I'm breaking in a new PC and I hadn't yet tweaked the raw converter defaults to my usual ones. Its worse than breaking in new shoes!
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17-Feb-2006 16:30
Bob, I was in a hurry when I wrote the short comment below. Can't believe nobody else has commented?
I like the shot a lot. Obviously, the lighting has a lot to do with it, but the perspective and choice of wide-angle lens and location are equally important to the success of this shot. I felt it could do with some sharpening, so I downloaded to try.
When I opened in Photoshop, I was warned of a missing color profile (which is fine, as long as it is in sRGB color-space) and assigned sRGB. I then tried assigning AdobeRGB (Image>Mode>Assign profile...), which rendered the photograph more saturated, and which I happened to like even more. If you try this and also like it better that way, don't forget to convert back to sRGB, before posting to the web (Image>Mode>Convert to profile...).
OK, now back to the sharpening: I tried some USM (150%, 0.3px, 3 levels) and thought it was an improvement, except for the grille and license plate, so if you do this sharpening, I'd recommend doing it selectively (this I did by duplicating the background layer, applying the USM on the new layer, adding a layer mask and painting with black at 50% opacity over the grille and license plate, with the mask active).
