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Hi Nancy - to me the pp on this image looks better. Nice detail and sharpening looks good. I do wish the impact of the oof pink rock in the fg could be lessened but I'm not sure if it is possible. I think the pika is very slightly angled away from you. Overall, well done.
TFS,
Rachel
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Hi Nancy, it's good that you are trying to do more in the RAW conversion, the image will be a lot better and you have more control. Just be careful with the 'Clarity' slider you really only want it between 1-10 as L$4 is far better than the previous edition. If you use too much the image will look crunchy. If you get to know LR or ACR then you will need less in PS, although there are things you may still need to do in PS.
I do think the image is better and you seem to have more control overall. I like the scene, position of the subject and the light blue works nicely to separate the subject, but the large OOF rock on the LHS really dominates the image for me. I don't think moving or going higher would have achieved any better result sadly. Just looking at the fur, did you lighten or lift the shadows at all? They are cute little characters and I love the satellite ears.
TFS
Steve
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lovely light and clarity. I love profiles and all the wiskers. I wonder if you could clone some of the other rock over the pink one, then blur it?
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If I had really thought ahead, I would have photographed more of the dark granite rock so I would have something to bring in over the pink rock. The bkgd rock was more prominent in the original and I did blur it and brought some of the sky down and feathered it over the top part. Is there some PS technique that would allow me to change the pink but not the texture?
Steve, I only have ACR, not Lightroom. On the fur, I reduced some redness, which probably caused other changes.
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Why desaturate, have you tried it, what effect does it have?
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Now that I see this posted I think I was so focused on adding the rock I forgot to sharpen for the web
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Steve, I'm lost somewhere. What did you do to the rock? I thought it looked like you had desaturated it, but obviously not.
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Steve, I get it. I used "desaturate" as a verb, meaning exactly what you did; "so all I did was drop the overall saturation around 50% then masked." I did not mean it as a tab/specific function in PS, which indeed would have made it B/W. Oops...
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That's fine, not trying to be semantic here, just curious incase I missed something. Hope it helped/worked.
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Its such a shame that big pink rock was in the way
I really hate when that happens. Steve;s repost has definitely calmed it down and your repost is great too. I think it worked for you. You have great detail on the OP and I'm right there with you on improving my PP. It's work for sure
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Late to this one, Nancy. My initial thought was to crop tighter. In your last RP you cropped a bit too tight for me as I might have left a sliver of the OOF rock still in there for context.
The overall PP (depth, clarity, quality) looks much better here. It's always great seeing people step out of their comfort zones and improve their photography or processing in the process.
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Thank you everyone for all your help!! I really, really appreciate it.
Morkel, I see your thinking on cropping, somewhere in between the two.