
Originally Posted by
Daniel Cadieux
You got some good critiques and advice, so I will not elaborate on those. The striations are odd, wonder what caused that. You can try a gaussian blur on them, but that will require careful masking of the subject to be sure it does not look artificial, and too much gaussian blur also looks "fake" to the trained eye (e.g. BPN members, ha!), so it's a fine line. My honest opinion though is that it is not worth it in this case except to try again in the field. That's what keeps us out and about trying photos of the same subjects again and again...plus it's fun!
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