
Originally Posted by
Daniel Cadieux
I really like the profile pose here, and you have a terrific background. Perch is what it is, perhaps in the future you'll get lucky and get one on a nicely weathered fence post instead. Thanks for making us northerners think of spring...it's right around the corner!
Repost is an improvement as the OP is much too contrasty. The repost still has bright midtones, especially the back of the robin...one of my favorite tools is the burn tool to darken such areas. Here I selected it, used a soft brush (0% hardness), used 10% opacity, selected midtones, and painted away on the back, wing, and rump. I also applied my "eye work" by lightening the iris using the same technique but with the dodge tool and selecting shadows instead and repeated twice.