Male Superb Fairy-wren in song (reworked)

[Peter Scholer]

Male Superb Fairy-wren

Reworked edition

Blown area near the cheek - clone with soft brush low opacity
More room around the bird - looser crop
Cloned out distracting branch section - clone tool and content aware fill.

Thanks to all for helpful CC as above much appreciated - hope this is an improvement!

Don't know how to get the post thumbnail yet.

First post
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php/96831-Male-Superb-Fairy-wren-in-song?p=786992#post786992


Narrowneck, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Image taken 8th March 2012

Nikon D7000, Nikon 600mm f/4 VR with Nikon TC-14E.
ISO: 320
Aperture: 7
Shutter: 1/640
Exp. Comp.: -0.3

http://petersimages.smugmug.com/Other/Aus-photography-1024/i-qFj68FF/0/X2/20120307Superbwren1024b-X2.jpg

[gail bisson]

This looks great Peter! Well done,
Gail

[Satish Ranadive]

Sweet image of cute little bird.

[Frank Schauf]

Exellent image quality, great details and sharpness.

[jack williamson]

He is a sporty looking little bird, showing off for the ladies I suppose. The looser comp works better, the highlights on the cheek patch are better, and good clone work on the perch. BG is perfect.

Jack

[Daniel Cadieux]

Great rework Peter. Personally I did like the extra part of the perch though.

BTW you were allowed to repost this reworked image in your original thread, but this version deserves to stand alone:w3

[Peter Scholer]

Thank you to all for your CC I appreciate it very much.
And Daniel I too think the extra part of the perch is fine so I include it below. Your tip to fix the blown area near the cheek is a very good one. :S3:

http://petersimages.smugmug.com/Other/Aus-photography-1024/i-Ds22BTQ/0/X2/20120307Superbwren1024c-X2.jpg

[Daniel Cadieux]

Yep, this confirms that I like that extra part of the perch!