A problem with shadows

Lornamower

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Recently, my cousin asked me to take some photos of her wearing her graduation robes, as she was unable to make it to the ceremony, I left my flash diffuser in gloucester and so bounced it off the wall/ceiling , and so there are some disgusting shadows to the right of her, and I've been trying all sorts to try and get rid of them, can anyone offer me any advise as to how they would remove these?


claire Shadow by Lornamower93, on Flickr

I have lightroom 3 and photoshop elements 9 :)

Thank you to anyone for any advice :)
 
Havnt got time to do it tonight, but I'd be tempted to mask her (maybe just the side with the shadow) and clone in some more wall I'd maybe start with a channel mask but difficult yo say for sure until you actually try
 
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gown.jpg


Needs a bit of tweaking but not too bad.
 
That doesn't look like bounced flash to me. You may have angled the flash head, but unless it's angled enough, direct light can still be hitting the subject directly from the flash, and I think that's what's going on here. There's no way the shadows would be that hard if ALL the light was being bounced off a wall.

I think while you obviously want this image edited... you need to work on your flash technique. Ideally, bounced flash should be much softer than using a diffuser over your flash.
 
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Thanks for your reply snapalot, :) Ive had a play around and this is what I've come up with, not perfect but not too bad.


claire Shadow copy by Lornamower93, on Flickr

Thanks for your reply as well David. I am just beginning with flash, but yes this flash was bounced off the wall, but the area I was working in was very tight, as it was in her front living room (wanted to go somewhere nicer but the robes had to be returned the next day). But will deffo take your advice into account next time, thanks.
 
OK so here's my fix...... as someone said better flash technique would have saved a lot of work...

Before
8353988881_698502b81a_o.jpg



After
Grad.jpg



I have the PSD and will post up if anyone is interested, otherwise I'll just pop it in the bin :)

Ta
 
TheDrift- said:
OK so here's my fix...... as someone said better flash technique would have saved a lot of work...

Before
8353988881_698502b81a_o.jpg



After
Grad.jpg



I have the PSD and will post up if anyone is interested, otherwise I'll just pop it in the bin :)

Ta
Click to expand...

Thank you!

Wow that blue is definitely effective!

The only thing im not sure about is the fact her characteristic mole under her eye is cloned out. But otherwise that is amazing! :D can you send over the PSD so I can have a look at the layers? =]

Thank you

Lorna
 
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