Salvaged Barred Owl

[Alan Murphy]

Barred Owl

Vancouver Island, BC

D3, 400, ISO 640, f4, 1/250 -1.0 EV

(If this is the wrong forum for this, please move)

I wanted to share this image that I processed 95% in ACR (Adobe Camera Raw CS5).
The image is full frame and was shot in very harsh light. I used the adjustment brush to tone down the over-exposed right side of the Owl and also to bring out more detail in the shadow side of the Owl, and the dark background.
Since the birds right eye was in shadow, and his right eye was in full sun, you can see the different size of the eyes. After balancing the light with processing, I felt both eyes should be the same. I used a samll brush in "liquidfy" (under "filters") to resize the eyes. Credit to Mike Gray for showing me the "adjustment" tool.
I love that each new version of Photoshop is saving more and more images that I used to throw away :-)

[allanrube]

Very nicely done. You certainly did a great job saving this image.

[Stu Bowie]

Great job in showing the difference, and you certainly worked the eyes very well. Well done.

[Randy Stout]

Alan:

I copied this thread to Digital Workflow since it centers around the new capabilities of ACR in CS5.

Nicely done.

Randy

[Pieter de Waal]

Thanks for sharing this Alan.

[Joey Lounsbury]

The difference is truly amazing! Wish I had this skill in Photoshop!

Joey

[Arthur Morris]

Quite impressive work. I need lessons on the AB..... Quite a save.

[Marina Scarr]

Studied this tool in a tutorial recently and think its one of the best additions to ACR. Wonderful example here of how well it works.

[Kris Mortensen]

Great example, love the rework version. If it was mine, I might tone down the background vegetation to make the perch jump off the page a little bit, and give it a tad more depth...but what a keeper!!