Shot in Kuala Selangor Malaysia
Hornbill
Shot in Kuala Selangor Malaysia
Neil - I've moved your thread from Wildlife to Avian where it belongs. Please remember to include your camera, lens and EXIF data in your posts.
Thanks,
Rachel
Neil,
Any chance you can give a bit of info on what you did in PP? I only ask because there seems to be a few issues with the noise in the black feathers which could indicate you underexposed the original by quite a bit, and the background and some of the branches look as if you've done something funky on them, especially the patterns in the green BG.
Interesting bird and I like the upwards look you're getting - the shots potential, but I think you might need to redo the file for a higher IQ result.
Mike
Cool looking bird nicely captured.
it looks like image has had some heavy editing work, it looks more like a painting so I am moving it to OTB forum for better feedback.
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Not to much really....I used Gaussian blur to blur out the background and made some small adjustments in ACR with a final adjustment using CEP....one passOriginally Posted by Mike Poole
I printed this in A2 yesterday using UltraSmooth Fine Art Paper and today will take it to get framed. It kind of does look like a painting, and I am very happy with it............it has turned out just the way I wanted it to.
It's a very nice pose in what looks like good lighting, but there is a grainy look to the body feathers. Is it a big crop? It does look like exposure may have been brought up.
It looks like the masking of the BG treatment could be cleaned up quite a bit. The BG looks posterized -- are you working in 16 bits?
No I'm using Photoshop CC
Thanks for the feedback
In Photoshop CC (or any version) you have the option of bringing an image in from the raw converter in either 8 bits or 16 bits. 16 will give you less posterization as you adjust tonalities, which is what I think I'm seeing in the BG here as a result of your blurring. But it won't do any good to change the bit depth after the fact -- it has to be done on import.
Great species and pose. I see this image has moved around the forums a bit. Not really sure if it belongs here since reading thru the comments the post-processing is not meant to be OOTB. Still, very lovely effect of the patterned green bkgd and it does have a painting-like quality.
I can tell you it looks amazing printed on the Epson UltraSmooth FAP :) :)
The pose is lovely and the colours are nice and vibrant. I thought it was worth the effort to soften the bg. Quick and dirty as they say
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