The Street Photography Bible by Michael Ernest Sweet

By Michael Ernest Sweet

In his signature conversational tone, Canadian award-winning author and photographer Michael Ernest candy writes approximately all issues "street images" during this - the road images Bible. Punctuated with Michael's personal images, this little booklet isn't really intended to be a finished consultant, yet really an opinionated investigate the realm of highway images for novices as obvious via Michael's lens. "Michael Ernest Sweet's pictures aren't candy in any respect - they're wealthy and investigative, with a different voice that speaks of presence, secret, and selectivity - a hugely own vision." - Jay Maisel, Photographer

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Using the cloned area to replace the unwanted area with sky. The end result. Healing The Healing Brush (which is often denoted by a Band-Aid icon) is used to correct imperfections in images. It works by sampling the colours and textures in the area around the blemish and using the resulting ‘brush’ to blend the blemish into the background. Selecting the Healing Brush tool. Some applications provide two settings: Healing and Spot Healing. The former requires you to select the area containing the hues and textures you wish to replicate.

Cropping inevitably cuts away image data so you should start thinking about the key elements in a shot when you take the picture to reduce unnecessary data loss. It’s better to move (or zoom) in closer to the subject, frame it tightly and keep your images at high resolution than to take the shot with the main subject surrounded by wasted space that must be cropped away. Consider the following when planning a crop: 1. Crop for interest. Focus on the subject that really matters and discard irrelevant distractions.

The former requires you to select the area containing the hues and textures you wish to replicate. Spot healing makes the selection automatically, based on the area around the blemish. Either tool can be used and you can alternate between them when working on a single blemish. Dragging the brush across the area you wish to ‘heal’ leaves a greyish trail that indicates processing is occurring. The grey line shows the track of the Spot Healing brush being used to make a line on the subject’s face less obvious.

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