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Ghost in the Shell

Ghost in the Shell

Ghost in the Shell

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hi guys i recently did the photography at my cousins birthday party with my (now sold) mk1 50mm and B+W KR1.5 filter. The filter was more for protection but as i shot through the night i noticed it was giving me nasty ghosting so i stopped using it and took it off.

the should you use a filter in certain circumstances aside arguement i have a few images i would like to correct the ghosting in as they were good shots apart from this problem.

ive posted an example as im not too good a CS so if someone can guide me through how to correct this image and not just fix it i would appreciate it :)

regards

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I can't see any ghosting, only blur form camera shake. You used a too slow shutter speed - 1/8 at only ISO200. Increase ISO next time for a faster shutter speed :)
 
im gona give it a try in a bit. I have no problem matching the skin tone, is the structure and shadowing i cant seem to get right

Its still very blurry in the background anyway so its not gona look much better there.
 
It's flare from the top left hand light source. Do you have a hood for future use?

I'd use the clone tool in photoshop to correct it if I were you - she's definitetly worth the trouble ;)
 
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thats the best i can match it, anymore adjustments and it looks worse, and i would need to go back to the drawing board. i have the original PSD if you wanner fiddle.

opps ive noticed ive missed her makeup on her eye, can mix that if u want.
 
chronic the eyebrow looks a little wonky to me :p my cousin would kill me if she saw this!

thanks for all the effort i was looking for someone to guide me how to correct them not just correct the example as i am trying to learn - i have others here id like to sort myself.

no telephone numbers being given out! but if your rich give me yours and ill pass it on, thats her only stipulation ;)

i dont have a hood but this was on my 50mm i didnt think a hood was needed? anyway it was the filter that seemed to cause the problem. was fine when i took it off. its just put me off filters mostly...
 
ok i shall make a little guide how i did it, its not gona be an exact process, because a lot of it was trial and error. Drawing new bits and random cloning till it looked more normal.

Probably the most basic explanation:-

*i just matched the colour of the skin around the flare by cloning small amounts from the forehead
*Used the healbrush to blend them together.
*From that i just used the smudge tool on 20-30% to pull the surround area skin into a reasonable shape. This dragged the already present shadows onto the repaired skin (this was trial and error as you can see by the first attempt)
*The skin was very soft and smudgy, so i used some blur to mix the tones and shadows.
*Then in quick mask mode i drew around the soften blurred skin returned to standard mode, inverted my selection mask and add a small amount of noise.
*The took the original picture and cloned her eye brow back in, and used her right eyebrow to clone a new left one.

If you find you cant do it, you can always add me to msn if u want some help. Should be doing my coursework but i never do :D
pretty cousin btw;)
 
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