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Hi Gail, missed you. Beautiful owl, intense stare, head on... nice. I would not add a catch light to the other eye unless there was a faint existing one, otherwise I think it would look out of place. If a faint catch light exists then I might brighten it. When we are capturing images of wild birds we take what we get, so shadows are inevitable. Love the background, nice work. Thank you for sharing.
Joe Przybyla
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Lovely frame Gail -- great head on stare, symmetric wing position, beautiful light and a nice BG to boot. Catchlight is nice. I see a bit of blue in shadows but might be just me. TFS
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Great looking image Gail, I love the stare and that the bird is flying right at you. Agree with Joe on the catch light. If mine, I'd try a version with the brights purple looking spots on top of the frame removed. Well done and thank you for sharing.
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Gail this lovely owl really pops from that dark BG,missed seeing your images this is a cracker to come back with.
Keith.
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Nice light, rich colours, and BG. I love the incoming pose. I suppose you could slightly enhance the current reflection in that shaded eye, but certainly not as bright as the sunlit one.
We missed you!! But also understand that life circumstances have priorities shifting...
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Welcome back Gail, and a lovely image to return with. Love the stare and the 'darkness' look of the frame. And, more important, well done on caring for your mother. Hope she gets better soon.
Will
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Hi Gail. Glad to see you back. Hope your mother is OK, and that you traveled to some wonderful places. I really like the head-on shot. I agree with your decision about the catchlight, but I wonder if lightening the shaded part of the face would help.
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Hi and welcome back, Gail from what I hope was adventurous travel. Hope your mother is doing better. Like this image a lot and I would leave it as you chose to. I like the BG showing a bit of light coming through the tree tops.
Geoffrey
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Welcome back! Nice flight shot, sharp and nicely lit, I don't mind the shaded parts since it is not to high contrast, nice BG
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Hi Gail, glad to see you back again, a fine shot, I lke the lighting but I would brighten the bird's RHS of facial disc just a little using a soft light layer i.e. not using the Dodge tool.
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Thank you all.
Jonathan- can you explain what you mean by a soft light layer?
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Originally Posted by
gail bisson
Thank you all.
Jonathan- can you explain what you mean by a soft light layer?
Hi Gail, try this:-
Layers
Alt click New Layer
See the new box appear, in Mode select Soft light from the drop down, then click the box Fill with Soft Light neutral color 50% gray.
Having done this select the Brush Tool, say 5% to begin with, select Foreground and Background colours - white makes things brighter, black the converse (the black and white squares on LHS of the screen in tool bar).
The trick is to brush gradually to achieve the desired effect. This is non destructive and does not affect saturation.
Hope this helps.
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pretty cool Gail, you did well but the side light was unfortunate, Dave's repost is interesting but I can definitely tell it's a bit unnatural given the strong shadow on the wing and no shadow on the head...can tell something is not right. you can try to raise the shadows but ultimately cannot change the angle of the sun. I got lucky the skies were cloudy when i was there, could shoot from any angle
TFS