Andrew McLachlan
07-23-2011, 12:06 AM
Common Loon with chick photographed last week on Horseshoe Lake. I spent about an hour with these loons towards sunset, as I lay in my canoe for lowest possible angle while handholding the 80-400mm VR lens.
A ton of work done here. This is the loon with the broken upper bill (that I photographed 6 years ago) - fixed that. Also evicted the other parent that was in the background behind this adult. Adjusted composition without cropping and fixed odd-looking highlights in both eyes that was caused by the low angle of the sun reflecting across the lake. Lastly, I cleaned up lots of bill shine in the adult bird too.
Fractalius applied using Glow 100 preset - masked back in the eyes and roughly 50% of the background.
Look forward to comments.
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A ton of work done here. This is the loon with the broken upper bill (that I photographed 6 years ago) - fixed that. Also evicted the other parent that was in the background behind this adult. Adjusted composition without cropping and fixed odd-looking highlights in both eyes that was caused by the low angle of the sun reflecting across the lake. Lastly, I cleaned up lots of bill shine in the adult bird too.
Fractalius applied using Glow 100 preset - masked back in the eyes and roughly 50% of the background.
Look forward to comments.
97083