Sudden Interest Photo

Photographer’s Note

Ocean Beach at Taraval St.
San Francisco, CA

This boy was playing around at the water's edge when he suddenly caught sight of a distant surfer. He froze in wonderment and focus on the rider.

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janwalt (263) 2004-09-09 16:12

I like this shot Eric. Great color and mood, and even though it's a bit "long" in the lower third I think it works here because that is such a great reflection. Great place to be in this heat wave, right?

Enia (365) 2004-09-09 18:43

Hi Eric. I think this is much better than the previous. I wish only if you had and the head of the reflection in the scene. But still is nice.

Schultzy (5428) 2004-09-12 11:44

Very romantic picture. A lot of beautiful colors and a nice composition. Very well done Eric !

Mike (693) 2004-09-14 18:36

Here's what I did to remove the line:

Duplicated the layer, so we now have two copies of the same image.

On the top copy I used the magic wand to completely mask the sky area, I then inverted the mask, then selected the move icon (top, right on the tool bar), and nudged the lower part of the image up by two pixels (tap the keyboard up arrow twice here), this removed the fine line where the two halves met.

Finally applied a slight blur along the divide (this is optional, try it and see if you prefer a cleaner line, or a slightly diffused one).

Because I had a layer underneath, the two pixels that were displaced by the nudge weren't lost, the underlying layer covered them very neatly.

Flatten and save.

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