lionfish

hi all,

thanks for the recent comments on my underwater site, i've nearly finished it, or finished what i can do with it so far, until i get more material.

here's a lionfish from the galleries that i have there, i'm fairly pleased with it but feel it could do with a bit of room underneath, i guess i could clone in some more blue but my previous attempts at this have been less than perfect as the subtle tone changes in the bluse mean if i clone in another part, the tone is always off. if anyone wants to take this and have a go, and tell me how they did it i.e. opacity, brush width etc i'd appreciate it.

hope you like, all other comments welcome.


20mm probably f8 @ 90th plus 1 strobe unit.

mark

Spectacular but as you say a bit tight in the frame at the bottom. Adding canvas is fairly easy. First I extended the canvas by a cm, then I used the marquee tool to select a strip of the bottom of the picture including fin tip. Then I pasted it on the picture giving me a second layer. I then switched off the b/g layer and used the magic wand to select the empty space around the strip I'd pasted, then selected inverse to select only the strip. I could then clone out the bit of fin to give me a complete strip. I swithched the bottom layer back on, flattend the image, then enlarged to 200% and went along the slight join I could see using a small cloning brush to blend the two.

This is a lot easier to do than describe and took less than 2 mins

John

thanks john, never thought of it that way round! i'll give it a try......mark

Superb image. The extra canvas certainly improves the picture as my only nit was the tightness at the bottom of the frame.



dennis

What a cracking shot of this spectacular looking species.The added canvas really finishes the image off.
Love the way the water gradually goes from dark to light diagonally across the frame

A very dynamic image-the fish really coming at you and hats off for going into innerspace,I m sure it is extremly difficult to get any shot down there let alone a clear one well composed

Hi Mark
what a Fab shot and the extended canvas just sets it off beautifully.

Really clear shot . Like the website . Was lucky enough to see these on my one scuba diving experience can only dream of photographing them.

Superb!

David

Fantastic shot