grab your pen tool draw a rough outline around the the area you want to clone out, being more careful around the hair of course (you are working on a new layer for sure) and make it a selection.... feather the edges 10 to 50 pixels... (experiment is key) grab your clone tool... then option clic (on the mac) the area on the opposite side of the image where there is similar lighting but in the foilage, and clone stamp inside your selected area.. deselct your selection and now use your clone tool, patch tool and eraser to refine the edges. With practice an area like that take three minutes to fix.

I am a very high strung individual.
on my motorcycle, at velocity where tunnel vision sets in and time seems to move in slow motion, and Jesus appears to mark the braking point I have to hit to survive the next corner... I feel incredibly relaxed and at peace. What has that got to do with photography? I have no idea...

I'm not a huge fan of the cut out on white (unless it is a very high key shot) so I'd try a version with the wall cloned out and a black background..... no guarentees it would be better, but worth trying anyways.

as for the kiss.. when you reshoot, try to envision this, there is a split second before the lips meet... as long as nobody is puckering or scrunching up thier faces.. that moment with eyes closed, lips amlost touching, it the money shot, for a wedding photographer...
just sayin'....

ok, look at it this way...

a few years back I decided I wanted to take back something that was wrongfully taken from me. An Education. I had gr 8 and a number of learning disabilities, and a child hood that if written down, would have to be published and filed in the "Horror" section of any bookstore. I am self taught. I started my own business. I found myself financially able to afford college. I had found this forum, and started posting regularly. My main interest at the time was to simply post something every day, to get in the habit of writing, daily. I knew I had to take my biggest weakness and deal with it if I was to stand a chance of getting into college. Writing. Between my poor spelling, poor penmanship, short attention span, and multitude of other problems I was never good at putting thoughts on paper. I wound up eating out of garbage cans at one point in my life, because I could not write and would not steal. I not olny got into college and got straight a's, for photography and marketing, I was the only student ever that was already running a photography business and been published in magazines. I needed those papers with the A's on them for reasons I don't expect others to understand. Spent thousands on them.

People here put up with my constant posts with bad spelling, poor grammer, occasional rants and other ocd bs.

Being here helped me work on my one real achille's heel.

I get help when I ask for it. and even friendship. I travelled acroos the country with my family and a member here even helped us out with organizing our visit to thiewr city. I never got tosend them the bottle of bluebeerry wine I bought for them in PEI, because our teenager drank it while we were out, and put the bottle back on the wine rack...lol! but I hope to one day thank them properly... we'll be in thier province again, I'm sure of it.

There is no business advantage for me to be here, I don't make money off anybody here.
there is no reason to be here except to enjoy the forums, the good and the bad for what they are and to minglr with the people, for me anyways.

but if there was some way to help out and contribute here, I'm happy to do it....
I would not refuse help them make some needed money to keep the wheels greased and the machinery in motion, in a mannor of speaking.
I get a lot. I'll be writing an artical for them soon, and if it is good enough, and they put it in the pay only section, I'm happy for them. I kinda owe something after all the things I get...

there is a problem.
on the one hand, sure people love free stuff. on the other hand.... it costs money to make the site, and therefore the forum.... how would people suggest that a balance be struck to ensure the long term viability of the whole site?

glad you like it, I'm being mindful of all feedback as I intend to release (eventually) more and more how to videos... on a variety of subjects....
so thanx!

nothing like tossing a little gas on the "Will Pentax make a FF camera?" fire....

just plead temporary insanity.

like the idea.
seems like a lot of stuff is floating around out there...
Here's one from some idiot...
How to make a portrait like this:


how-to video