Vase on black

[stevet1]

Vase on black

T8i 1/10, f/9, ISO 12800

Steve Thomas

[SignifDigits]

Steve, one more question, if you don't mind.  I'm assuming the background of the vase picture is most easily eliminated if it is all one color (I would say green screen, but you had green, so say perhaps grey or orange or something along those lines)? 

In lifting the shadow I had a lot of work getting the rocks and such gone.  Since it was a shadow I maxed contrast and highlight and shadows but still had to burn and dodge/erase a lot and then I burned in or (stamped, don't recall really) to ensure our shadow was all black.

Just curious how to make the process as easy as possible.

[stevet1]

SignifDigits,.

I'm using an image editing program called Irfanview. There are 48 different color variations (although several are variations of the same color, like cobalt blue vs.royal blue, etc.). Just go into your Edit tab and choose, "Show Paint Dialog"  You could, if you want, draw an outline freehand of anything you want, and then choose "fill color", and fill it in with any color you want

The program is free and pretty easy to use and works with jpgs and RAW.

I do my initial editing with the RAW file in DPP4 and then convert it to jpgs for web posting and storage purposes.

I don't like the sharpening feature in Irfanview. It's too overdone. I'd rather do that in DPP4. Same with the "Convert to Grayscale".

Steve Thomas

[SignifDigits]

Thanks Steve.  I'll check that out.