These birds sure like to climb to the top of very thin branches in search of flowers.
Taken:
Green Cay Wetlands. 1DMKIII, 300mm 2.8 IS, F2.8, 1/640", ISO800, no fill.
Purple Gallinule Balance
These birds sure like to climb to the top of very thin branches in search of flowers.
Taken:
Green Cay Wetlands. 1DMKIII, 300mm 2.8 IS, F2.8, 1/640", ISO800, no fill.
Last edited by Billy Gilbert; 04-28-2008 at 03:43 PM.
Love thepose and the wide framing. The light o-o-f areas right behind the bird are problematic. You might try doing to Hue/Sat and reducing the SAT of the CYAN and see how those wings look.
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Really cool moment you've caught there! The light areas behind the bird can be removed (if you are okay with that) without too much trouble. I love this for its unusual pose; the colors and clarity look very nice to me as well!
Thanks Arthur and Anita. I'll try that and post it.
*edit* Here is a quick try.
Last edited by Billy Gilbert; 04-28-2008 at 04:27 PM.
I need to disagree with Anita as to the "without too much trouble." Doing it properly (which would require good QMing techniques) would be quite time consuming because the feeet and the toes are involved. In addition, there are not many evnly patterned areas in the ORIG; this would make it difficult to get source material.Originally Posted by Anita Rakestraw
While scrolling up to see the image I saw Billy's work with the clone stamp, Good try and thanks for the effort but the clone marks are obvious. How do I know? I used to do the same thing till I got busted. QMs are the only help here and using them would require a lot of skill and a lot of effort.
Last edited by Arthur Morris; 04-28-2008 at 04:34 PM.
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Hey Billy, glad to see you on here.
I also like all the elements that have been brought forth. I think that your edit actually introduced some other distracting elements. I see circles where you cloned the white spots.
like the pose here. re-post looks bit abnormal with smudges...
Yea my quick attempt seems to have done more harm that good, but its a little more difficult than a typical clone job.
Arthur, maybe our definitions of "without too much trouble" are different! LOL! Actually, he didn't do such a bad job, esp. around the legs, but he's just not finished! With a little more work, he'll have it. (and agreed, if you have hundreds of images to process, that's probably "too much trouble." (-:
That's what I said :) And that is why folks need to learn to use Quick Masks for seamless repairs.
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Regardless of one's definition of "too much trouble, this is a difficult repair. And the only way to save Billy's (very) bad job would be with QMs... Sorry, but the facts are the facts :)
Last edited by Arthur Morris; 04-28-2008 at 06:45 PM.
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Selective color works well here. I think the thing we must always be careful of is that the area we are filling must be a continuation of the texture surrounding it. Using selective color allows us to Paste Into that area making it more natural than cloning.I hope this helps Rod
Last edited by Rod Wiley; 04-28-2008 at 05:57 PM. Reason: posted wrong photo
Hi Billy !!!!! Nice photographing with you at Green Cay I like the action captured particularly the leg action Only the proverbial cleaner bg would have made it better
I like the Rod's clean up work Not bad and working form a jpeg !!!!
Rod's clean-up is much better. Billy: did you do any BKGR cloning in your ORIG post?
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I used selective color and masking and came up with this, looks a lot better, thanks for the good idea!
Arthur, the original file has no cloning at all.
Pretty cool pose captured!
The last repost is better still. Chris Dodds!?!?!?!?
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For better or worse I quickly used the blur tool to get rid of some of the artifacts and noise in the more prominent areas.
Smoothed out the edges of the modified area a bit more.
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