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the postprocessed product
I use a laptop and have LR2 and CS4. I do not use CS4 much as I don't know how to use layers adequately yet.
I forgot to mention above, I shoot in RAW.
In Lightroom, I process the Raw version and with this photo, the workflow went like this:
checked for blown out highlights and dark spots using historgram. Barely needed to make adjustments here (whites on neck, darks on underside of right wing)
Increased temperature from 5500 to 6048
Increased contrast a bit
Cropped to 8x10 to rid of some of right and bottom
Used adjustment brush on bill and head for sharpening, some increase in brightness, clarity and saturation
Used tone curve, medium contrast to lighten shadows some more
Increased luminance and saturation on feathers
Used a bit of sharpening and masking
Noise reduction on luminance
Converted to jpeg but the file was greater than 200 so I opened in CS4 and saved for web.
What would you have done?
Thank you!