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I'm still trying to perfect my diffuser for the more compact setup I am experiment with, and the lighting on this one came out far too harsh. I did like the nice pose this woodlouse got himself into so I thought I would try and "rescue" it by bombarding it with layers n Photoshop. As every good photographer knows you don't really need to worry too much about getting your lighting right in camera as you can always correct it in post
Not sure how successful I was, but I did learn a new trick to remove colour banding caused by gradient masks. If you add a layer of noise to the gradient (around 2% with uniform distribution and uncheck the monochrome option) it will smooth the effect more (I was suffering from these "posterisation" artifacts quite badly when adding the vignettes). If you are getting banding without using gradients you can add a new layer, fill it with grey, set the blend mode to "overlay" and add noise in a similar way..
Anyway, I think I got quite an "arty" result. A lot more processing than I would usually do and I think I lose a lot of clarity as a result. What do you think? One for the bedroom wall?
Common Shiny Woodlouse by Tim.Garlick, on Flickr
Not sure how successful I was, but I did learn a new trick to remove colour banding caused by gradient masks. If you add a layer of noise to the gradient (around 2% with uniform distribution and uncheck the monochrome option) it will smooth the effect more (I was suffering from these "posterisation" artifacts quite badly when adding the vignettes). If you are getting banding without using gradients you can add a new layer, fill it with grey, set the blend mode to "overlay" and add noise in a similar way..
Anyway, I think I got quite an "arty" result. A lot more processing than I would usually do and I think I lose a lot of clarity as a result. What do you think? One for the bedroom wall?
Common Shiny Woodlouse by Tim.Garlick, on Flickr