macro from lembeh

this shot was taken with a sony P12 on macro setting, no strobe lighting was used, only the built in flash. any useful comments very welcome. many thanks, stewsmith

Is this full sized or did you crop the picture?

The fins are cut of a bit on the top and bottom.

I used to shoot with a P10 and had a similar hue on most pics as well, but you can get some of the colours back PS.

Pieter

no it wasnt cropped, your edited version looks much better. what did you do to the hue to get it llikt that

I think your composition is just fine which is an important part but the lighting is lets face it horrid. It is all green kind of looks like the flash didn't go off at all. It is a limitation with the camera. Yzer yours kind of looks like it is in a field outside, a little to bright I think. Here is my version. I hit the autocolor, brightness contrast and blurred a tad in the front to separate the fish a little better and went over it with the sponge tool 20 seconds of time.

what is the sponge tool used for?

elliott

The sponge tool is a creative way to improve saturation ie bring out colors more in a selective area at a controlled intensity. To much and it will look noisy and very "digital" play with the toolbar setting and how long you hold the mouse down also controls intensity. I like to dab with the mouse.

thanks, i'll try it on some old pictures.

elliott