Digital Photographic Practice: Exercise

CORRECTION

This exercise was or is to remove dust, I cannot find a picture with dust and for some reason I can never open the examples on the OCA website, I really must all and work out what i'm doing wrong.
I did recall this image that I had that has an annoying flake or newborn baby skin, by the babys eye.. Its hardly noticeable but I found it very annoying. So this will be the same process as removing the dust fleck.

I opened image 6370-2 in Photoshop and selected the clone stamp tool, I clicked on the area and it selected a similar area and replaced. Even this wasn't perfect but much better, I was happy with the alteration.
The second image is the improved one, probably on this blog it is less noticeable but when you have the image on an enlargement I found the skin flake to be quite obvious. In this instance I would always remove. It only enhances the picture and the skin would take your eye otherwise.
With dust removal it would always depend on the photograph which it effected. If the image was very busy and dark.. if you had a really blue sky for instance and and the fleck of dust was right in the middle of perfect blue it would ruin your picture.
So I think removal will always be dependant on the photo in question.

First Attempt at Lens Flare Correction in Lightroom

This here, as stated above is my first attempt at lens flare removal... and as I proceeded I realised I should have found and easier example maybe. I did have this picture to hand, IMG 7253, and with the necessary 'Lens Flare'.. I have made the alteration as best I can but is not perfect but it gave me a good idea how it works. The trellis made it a little hard.. This was done in Lightroom with a clone stamp tool, and I had to be careful as when I made the circle larger the trellis became distorted.

After Alteration

Below is an advertising image with lens flare which it is beneficial to the picture. Without it this picture would look just misty, dusty and maybe an early morning coolness. The lens flare however suggest the sun is out and immediately there is a hotness about the shot, its very descriptive and should definitely be left in..