Cloning - Good or Bad

Rod Boughton

Rod Boughton

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Hi, i recently took this shot and i thought it was a perfect candidate for selective colour ( i know there are mixed feelings about this type of photography, i think the word marmite comes to mind, but bear with me) This is more about post processing. The first shot is the original :

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This shot is after cloning work :

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How did i do, i'm relatively new to digital processing, could i have done anything better?

Rod
 
Wow amazing just like magic... How long did that take to do?
 
Not a bad job tbh, the only giveaway would be the road personally would have left it the way it was and that man hole cover just next to the phone box there the only parts I picked up on from a brief glipse.
 
I think the idea is nice, I think the selective colour is done almost OK (I see some orange...), but personally I would not feel that I had finished the job on the cloning..
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What jarrs (?sp?) me is the straight lines left in the cloning on the road. This was a quick 10 minute edit (including removing a little extra colour). Obviously I am doing this quickly and on a smaller image, but I feel that if you are going to print this, then you need to work on 3 areas on the cloning
1) The road near the top of the hill on the right
2) the path immediately to the right of the post box
3) The wall/concrete at the top of the wall-reinforcement

It might just be my particular type of OCD, but those three areas jump out immediately (before even looking at the original image) as having been cloned.
 
Thanks everyone, Kev, i reckon it probably took me about an hour to an hour and a half, i did it over several evenings a bit at a time.

Daza and Coldpenguin, i agree with your comments, i am not to happy with those areas and definitely think they were my weakest points, i do want to try to improve those areas because i want to print this one, can you suggest how to make it look better in those areas?

Thanks

Rod
 
On the edit I did, I used the heal brush along (not up and down) the harsh lines that were obvious.
I also did a desaturate layer with a mask to remove the orange
 
If you're jsut starting, thats very good. The main bits to look at, as noted above are stripy road and the drain cover by the phone box.
Also, I can't really tell from this size, but on the concrete behind the lamp post it looks like the darker (dirt?) pattern repeats a couple of times as if you've coned down a bit, then repeated with the same selection. I know I'm being very picky on this point as I only noticed because I was looking for it :) I've done the same myself and only realised when I zoomed out thinking I'd finished.
 
If you'd have left the road alone, no one would have said anything!
As it is, the eye is drawn straight to it, as somethings 'wrong'.

Anyway, it's a great edit ! Well done.
 
Castle Hill, Dover!

The second edit is the best, but I'd have preferred to see the road left in.
 
Thanks everyone, yes Castle Hill, Dover, it is. I removed the yellow and white lines in the road because i wanted it to look older, pre-roadmarkings, but then i guess the telephone box ruins that theory. There are areas that i am not happy with, but as it was my first real attempt at this type of processing, i learnt a lot and will probably redo this one when i have more time.

Rod
 
you might get away with cropping out some of the road on the RHS, this would also place the phone box nearer to a rule of third line and save you a bit of road cloning? Just a thought, may not work. :shrug:
 
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