28 April 2007
wing mirror
a friend came over the other day and parked their mini outside the house. i thought that the reflection of the house from the back of the wing mirror might look kind of cool so i went to the window zoomed in and took a shot.
unfortunately i've got a (what seems pathetic) 4x zoom so you couldn't see any detail at all. so i went closer to the wing mirror. of course the problem with taking pictures of reflective surfaces is that the photographer is often in the photo. sometimes this is works for the shot but it wasn't what i was after.
anyway after taking it into photoshop i found that getting so close to the mirror also revealed a lot of dirt and scratches. i selected the clone tool and went about removing these. then i thought, if i could remove the dirt, then why not get rid of myself as well. so that's what i did, along with my lounge window that i was standing in front of as this was easier than redrawing the whole window.
you can look at the original image to see how manipulated the photo is.
unfortunately i've got a (what seems pathetic) 4x zoom so you couldn't see any detail at all. so i went closer to the wing mirror. of course the problem with taking pictures of reflective surfaces is that the photographer is often in the photo. sometimes this is works for the shot but it wasn't what i was after.
anyway after taking it into photoshop i found that getting so close to the mirror also revealed a lot of dirt and scratches. i selected the clone tool and went about removing these. then i thought, if i could remove the dirt, then why not get rid of myself as well. so that's what i did, along with my lounge window that i was standing in front of as this was easier than redrawing the whole window.
you can look at the original image to see how manipulated the photo is.
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